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DAILY GUIDE FOR THE 
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DAILY GUIDE 

FOR THE 

SANCTIFIED 



BY 

J. M. HUMPHREY 

AUTHOR OF 

4t Select Fruits from Beulah, " " Spiritual Lessons from Everyday 
Life," " Fragments from the King's Table/' "Sermons that 
Never Die/ 9 " The Lost Soul's First Day in Eternity," 
"Dew Drops from the Rifted Clouds/' Etc., Etc. 



"See, and ask for the old paths.... 
and walk therein." (Jer. 6. 16.) 



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Copyright, 1917 

By 

J. M. HUMPHREY 



DEC 24 1917 

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of Chicago, Illinois. 

Who has been for years so faithful and punctual 

in sending out holiness literature to the 

Evangelists and gospel workers 

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A FOREWORD 

In preparing this treatise for the holiness people 
at large, we have called to our assistance some of 
the most Godly men and women the world ever 
knew, namely John Wesley, John Fletcher, Thomas 
a' Kempis, Madame Guyon, Jeremiah Taylor, 
William Law, Fenelon, J. A. Wood, Charles G. 
Finney and many of the present day authors. 

To avoid a sameness and also a tendency to de- 
tract from the interest of the reader, we have 
omitted the numerous quotation marks, or author's 
name following each paragraph. 

We send it forth with prayer and love, to all 
the seekers of ancient piety. 

Yours in His service, 

J. M. Humphrey. 

November, 1917. 



Daily Guide for the 
Sanctified 



JANUARY 



January 1. Endeavor always to remember that 
you are in the immediate presence of God; and 
strive to act as you would if you saw the Saviour 
standing by your side. Eecollect that He is really 
there. Always intentionally aim to please God in 
all things. Frequently call to mind the expression, 
"Thou God seest me." 

January 2. Call to mind what Christ has done 
for you. Think on what He has in reserve for you, 
if faithful. How great is His goodness! Be ever 
striving, from the principle of divine love, to 
please God in all your thoughts, words and actions. 
Labor to realize that inspired truth, "He that 
dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. M 
Love is only pure as it is unselfish. 

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January 3. Holiness people who persist in 
dwelling by the Jericho fords never possess the 
land. Holiness means continued advance. There 
is no stand still place where there is nothing either 
to do or learn. If you would have peace and true 
union with God, you must postpone all other con- 
siderations, and look only to your own spiritual 
life. 

January 4. Open not your mouth. Silence ! A 
word will grieve, disturb, frighten away the gentle 
dove. Hush — not a word! Are you misunder- 
stood? Never mind! Will it hurt your influence 
and weaken your power for good? Leave it to 
Him. His to take care and charge. Are you 
wronged and your good name tarnished? All 
right. Be it yours, to be meek and lowly ; simple 
and gentle — not a word. Let Him keep you in per- 
fect peace ; stay your mind on Him ; trust in Him. 
Hush ! Be quiet before the world and rest in Him. 
Not a word of argument, debate or controversy. 
Mind your own business ; be still. 

January 5. Reader, if a righteous cause bring 
you into sufferings, a righteous God will bring you 
out of sufferings. A Christian is as much indebted 

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to his enemies, as to his friends. The malicious 
crucifixion of Christ, wrought out the glorious 
exaltation of Christ. The worst that men can do 
against believers, is the best they can do for 
believers. 

January 6. Just as Satan's agents tried to con- 
fuse and cause Elisha to doubt away his "mantle 
blessing,' ' so do his agents to-day endeavor to 
confuse and becloud every newly sanctified soul. 

January 7. If, in examining your state, you 
should find that sometimes impertinent visits, 
foolish conversation, or a day idly spent in civil 
compliances, with the humors and pleasures of 
other people, has rendered your mind dull and 
indisposed, and less affected with devotion, than at 
other times, then you will have found that imperti- 
nent visits, and ceremonious compliances in spend- 
ing our time, are not little, indifferent things, but 
are to be numbered among those things which have 
a great effect upon our minds, and such as are to 
be daily watched and guarded against. 

January 8. Neither dare we affirm, as some 
have done, that all this salvation is given at once. 

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There is indeed an instantaneous as well as a grad- 
ual work of God in His children. * * * But we 
do not know of a single instance, in any place of a 
person's receiving, in one and the same moment, 
remission of sins, the abiding witness of the Spirit, 
and a new clean heart. 

January 9. Do all you can to sleep well. Rise 
early— on first waking ; do not parley ; redeem the 
time. Endeavor to have prayer or praise and 
thoughts of heavenly things, first in the morning, 
and last in the evening. 

January 10. When a man comes to a pitch of 
holiness as not to seek consolation from any created 
thing, then God begins to satisfy him entirely with 
His sweetness ; and after that, he is well contented 
to let things take their course. He will not be car- 
ried away with joy in prosperity, nor unduly de- 
pressed in adversity, but will put his whole trust 
and confidence in God. 

January 11. The man who does not avoid small 
defects, will by little and little, fall into greater. 
You will always be glad in the evening, if you have 
spent the day profitable. Watch over yourself, stir 

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up yourself, caution yourself; and, whatever may 
be the cause with others, neglect not yourself. 

January 12. We are forbid to set our hearts 
upon the world, and everything in it, because our 
eternal happiness depends upon our loving God 
with all our heart and soul. We are obliged to 
love our neighbor and our very enemies; and we 
are forbid to hate, to contend, to go to law with 
him, because this would exasperate our minds and 
grieve the Holy Ghost. 

January 13. We need to keep our eyes on the 
judgment — not to judge so much by appearances 
as by character of things. We must go in for sound 
experience rather than to pamper anyone, to spread 
true holiness rather than a sounding name, for a 
pure church rather than a large one, for that which 
is solid rather than anything chaffy. Let us re- 
member we are building for eternity, and it be- 
hooves us frequently to enquire respecting our 
labors, will this stand ? 

January 14. Take heed, reader, how you lay 
off your armour, by refusing to take an appoint- 
ment; to serve as class-leader, Sabbath-school 

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teacher, etc., also by shirking duty and responsi- 
bility ; by going on too many vacations ; by staying 
home from the mid-week prayer meeting. Solomon 
said, " There is no discharge in that war." (Eccles. 
8:8.) The margin has it, "No casting off of 
weapons. ' ' 

January 15. Blessed is the simplicity, which 
avoids the difficult ways of questions, and walks 
on the plain and firm foot-path of the command- 
ments of God. 

To walk inwardly with God, and to have the 
heart detached from earthly objects, is the state 
of a spiritual man. 

January 16. Patience is love in full bloom, 
therefore from January to January, her counte- 
nance is calm and serene as the face of heaven un- 
spotted by the shadow of a cloud; and no wrinkle 
of anger is seen in her forehead. Her eyes are the 
eyes of doves for meekness, and on ^er eyebVows 
sit cheerfulness and joy. \ 

January 17. No pretense or effort to "holy liv- 
ing" will commend us to God, so long' as He sees 
that the heart is yet unholy. "For the Lord seeth 

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not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward 
appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." 
(1 Sam. 16:7.) In the sight of God no one is 
better than his heart. 

January 18. Not railing for railing, not a word. 
How much is lost by a word ! Be still ; keep quiet ; 
if they smite you on one cheek, turn the other 
also. Never retort. Hush — not a word. Never 
mind your reputation or character — they are in 
His hands, and you mar them by trying to retain 
them. 

January 19. The prayer of St. Paul for the 
Thessalonians, that God would "Sanctify them 
through," and "that the whole of them, the spirit, 
the soul, and the body, might be preserved blame- 
less," will undoubtedly be heard in behalf of all 
the children of God, as well as of those at Thes- 
salonica. Hereby, therefore, all Christians are en- 
couraged to expect the same blessing from "the 
God of peace." 

January 20. Our joy may vary ; but our right- 
eousness, like the sun should never vary. Whether 
elated, or depressed, whether shouting from the 

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mountain top, or in heaviness through manifold 
temptations, we should go straightforward in the 
line of duty. 

January 21. That is barren ground, which 
brings forth nothing, except it be force. ■ ' To him 
that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him 
it is sin." The sins of ignorance are most nume- 
rous; but the sins of knowledge are most danger- 
ous: that sinner's darkness will be the greatest in 
hell, whose light was the clearest on earth. 

January 22. Every holiness fighter on earth, 
whether in the church or out, advertises the fact 
that he is a stranger to the new birth. When we 
are born of God, we have His nature in us. We 
will then hate what God hates, and love what He 
loves. A good evidence of the new birth, is that 
one will want to be holy. It enables us to walk 
in the light and not in the darkness. It enables 
one to live without sin. 

January 23. A lady abominates a sot, as a 
creature that has only the shape of a man; but 
then she does not consider that drunken as he is, 
perhaps he can be more content with the want of 

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liquor than she with the want of fine clothes : and 
if this be her case, she only differs from him as 
one intemperate man differs from another. 

January 24. Idleness is called the "sin of 
Sodom and her daughter,' * and indeed is "the 
burial of a living man;" an idle person being so 
useless to any purpose of God and man, that he 
is like one that is dead. 

My son, let not the labors you have undertaken 
for My sake break you down, neither let trials 
make you continually gloomy ; but let My promise 
give you strength in every thing that befalls you. 

January 25. The memory of righteousness 
brings joy to the soul even when in affliction. What- 
ever trials we may experience, the loss of health, 
poverty, the death or estrangement of friends, the 
slander of others, the triumph of enemies, and 
even greater trials, yet, if we have the testimony 
of a good conscience we can "rejoice that our 
names are written in heaven." 

January 26. Observe fixed seasons of religious 

retirement. Jesus "continued all night in prayer." 

Never proceed to business or engagement till 

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you have first implored the divine blessing. Eest 
firmly on the intercession of Jesus Christ and 
humbly depend upon the aid of the Holy Spirit. 

January 27. There must be frank, outspoken 
confession, if you would taste in their fullness the 
joys of salvation. It was for his own benefit as 
well as for others, that the Psalmist said, "Come, 
all ye that fear the Lord, and I will declare unto 
you what he hath done for my soul. ' ' You cannot 
keep the blessing God has given you unless you 
declare it. 

January 28. Sampson relied on his past experi- 
ence, and when his locks were shorn, he said he 
would shake himself as he had formerly done, and 
wist not that his strength was departed. 

Every human being is at his best in those move- 
ments when there is no self-dependence, and not 
even a leaning to one 's own understanding, nor de- 
pending on past success. 

January 29. ' ' Thou shalt not follow a multitude 
to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to 
decline after many, to wrest judgment. Neither 
shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.' ' 

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(Exd. 23:2-3.) "Thou shalt not respect the per- 
son of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty ; 
but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor. ' * 
(Duet. 19:15.) 

January 30. Consider how many excellent per- 
sonages in all ages have suffered as great or greater 
calamities than this which now tempts thee to im- 
patience. Almost all the ages of the world have 
noted that their eminent scholars were most emi- 
nently poor, some by choice, but most by chance. 

January 31. And another of His disciples said 
unto Him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my 
father. But Jesus said unto him, "Follow me; 
and let the dead bury their dead. Why seek ye the 
living among the dead?" 

God sometimes suffers men of excellent virtues, 
of unquenchable love and charity, and invincible 
constancy to fall into diverse temptation, great af- 
flictions, and manifold miseries, because he will 
have their moral grace to break out and shine be- 
fore men, that they, seeing the constancy of his 
saints, may glorify him. 

When you can stand face to face with waste, folly, 
extravagance, spiritual insensibility and endure it 
all as Jesus endured it, — that is victory. 

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FEBRUARY 

February 1. "I will love thee, Lord, my 
strength, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, 
and my deliverer ; my God, my strength, in whom I 
will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salva- 
tion, and my high tower.' ' (Psl. 18: 1-2.) 

February 2. Beloved, if we are ever qualified 
for soldier-life, we shall have to take the rugged 
way, and accept gladly the painful discipline which 
will develop strength. Who are the men to-day 
who stand out as the heroes of the world? They 
are not the slick and self-indulgent society dolls 
and dudes, but the men who have courted the places 
of highest peril, hardship and exposure. 

February 3. Justification includes at least 
twelve distinct and perfect works ; they occur simul- 
taneously as follows: a perfect conviction; a per- 
fect surrender; a perfect repentance; a faith that 
perfectly trusts God ; a perfect pardon ; a perfect 
adoption ; the love of God shed abroad in the heart ; 

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power to forsake and cease from all sin ; the witness 
of the Spirit ; obedience to all the light God gives. 

February 4. "The works of righteousness (holi- 
ness) shall be peace, and the effects of righteous- 
ness quietness and assurance forever.' ' 

1. It is not a state in which we do not sym- 
pathize with the joy and sorrows of others. 

2. It is not a state of exemption from physical 
or mental suffering. 

3. It is not a state of exemption from Christian 
warfare, or a state of inglorious ease from labor and 
Christian duty. 

4. It is a state of settled and complete satis- 
faction in God, He being "all in all" to the soul. 

February 5. One of the earliest signs that we 
are getting into deep water with the Holy Ghost 
is the clear spiritual discernment between things 
and beings; between blessings from God and a se- 
cret personal union with Him ; between the coming 
and the going of various spiritual emotions and a 
steady gaze and leaning upon the immutable char- 
acter of God. 

February 6. "Avoid light, trifling, vain and 
worldly conversation. Never speak merely to ex- 

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cite laughter. Never tell a story with an impure 
reflection in it. Never speak without thought.' ' 

February 7. Pliny informs us of two goats meet- 
ing together on a narrow bridge ; where neither of 
them could either proceed or recede ; at last one of 
them lay down, that the other might go over him. 
How much of the man was there in those two beasts ; 
and how much of the beast is there in some men ? 

February 8. Another singular action of a sanc- 
tified Christian is to render the greatest good, for 
the greatest evil. Theodosius, the emperor, being 
urged to execute one who had reviled him, an- 
swered, "So far from gratifying your wish, were it 
in my power, if he were dead, I would raise him to 
life again, rather than being alive, to put him to 
death." 

February 9. Reproof should be administered in 
a mild manner, a gentle tone of voice and a sweet 
lowly spirit, and never in a blustery denunciating 
manner. Solomon said, "A soft answer turneth 
away wrath ; but grievous words stir up anger. 9 * 

Reproof should be received in the same spirit 
that we receive commendation and applause. 

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February 10. The eternal God of the universe, 
stands, as it were, like an almighty servant and says : 
"If you, my child, will only pray I will work; if 
you will only be busy with asking, I will see to the 
doing." Not only does He listen to our cry, but Re 
acts. Not only does our prayer evoke His bounty ; 
it sets in motion His omnipotence. Wherefore, as 
we enter into the secret chamber of prayer, nothing 
will so stir us to mighty intercessions, nothing will 
so soon make us master-leaders with God for a lost 
world, as to whisper to our own soul, again and 
again, this wonderful truth, "While I am praying, 
God is really doing that which / am asking." 

February 11. Pause! Be still! Selah! Not a 
word emphatically ; not even a look, that will mar 
the sweet serenity of the soul. Get still. Know 
God. Keep silent before Him. Stillness is better 
than noise. 

February 12. Never judge nor condemn, never 
arraign nor censure. Not a word ! Never an un- 
clean or an unkind expression. Never a doubt or a 
fear. Never a disparaging remark of another. As 
you would others should do to the world, so do ye. 



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February 13. The Saviour says, "Ye shall know 
them by their fruits." The streams partake of the 
nature of the fountain. The heart gives character 
to the life by a law of necessity. It breathes itself 
thru' all our actions, and a pure heart will be in- 
dicated, — 1. By pure and holy conversation. 2. By 
opposition to all impurity. 3. By watchfulness. 
The love of purity begets watchfulness against im- 
purity. 4. By reluctance to mingle with the gay, 
the vain, and the worldly. 

February 14. Holiness is essential to useful- 
ness. Unholy men may spread Christianity, but 
they pervert it as they spread it. "Their riches 
are corrupted/' and they corrupt Christianity when 
employed for its support. Perhaps no man ever 
devoted so much wealth for the spread of the gospel 
as Constantine; and no one ever did so much to cor- 
rupt it. 

February 15. It is vanity, therefore, to seek 
riches, and to trust in that which is perishable. It 
is vanity, too, to seek honors, and to strive for high 
positions. It is vanity to follow the desires of the 
flesh, and to crave for that which would inevitably 
bring with it a sore punishment. 

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February 16. Carvossa once said, "I was one 
night in bed, so filled — so overpowered with the 
glory of God, that, had there been a thousand suns 
shining at noon-day, the brightness of that Divine 
glory would have eclipsed the whole ! I was con- 
strained to shout aloud for joy * * * Behold- 
ing as in a glass the glory of the Lord, I was 
changed into the same image from glory to glory 
by the Spirit of the Lord !" 

February 17. Let us therefore not vainly say, 
that if we had lived in our Saviour's days, we would 
have followed Him, or that if we could work mir- 
acles we would devote ourselves to His glory. For 
to follow Christ as far as we can in our present 
state, and to do all that we are able for His glory, 
is as acceptable to Him as if we were working mir- 
acles in His name. 

February 18. As for flatterers, they may be 
named the deviPs upholsterers; who no sooner see 
men troubled at their lusts, than they are for lay- 
ing pillows under their elbows: but let such know 
that their want of the fire of zeal will be punished 
with the fire of hell. 



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February 19. Israel's deliverance could be se- 
cured only through the offering of blood. A lainb 
without blemish was to be slain, its blood placed 
upon the out-posts of the house. And the Lord 
said : ' c The blood shall be to you a token upon the 
house where you are; and when I see the blood I 
will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon 
you to destroy you when I smite the land of 
Egypt." 

February 20. Kadesh was the scene of Israel's 
defeat. It was the Waterloo of that unbelieving 
nation. Thousands have met their spiritual Water- 
loo in a parallel place in their religious life. The 
"bugbears" that here frightened them from Ca- 
naan have their counterpart in hindrances to holi- 
ness among believers now. Here believers, like the 
children of Israel at Kadesh, are confronted by 
defiant and boastful giants, which, if feared, will 
conquer ; if faced, will fall. 

February 21. The more a man gives to the poor, 
the more he has. The increase is like that of the 
five loaves and the two fishes, which produced 
twelve baskets of fragments, after five thousand 
were filled. 

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February 22. ' ' Have a pure intention of heart, a 
steadfast regard to God's glory in all your actions. " 
For then and not till then, is that mind in us, 
which was also in Christ Jesus, when in every mo- 
tion of our heart, in every word of our tongue, in 
every work of our hands, we pursue nothing but in 
relation to Him, and in sub-ordination to His pleas- 
ure ; when we, too, neither speak, nor think, nor act, 
to fulfill our own will, but the will of Him that 
sent us; "when, whether we eat or drink, or what- 
soever we do, we do it all to the glory of God." 

February 23. Nor do the customs of the world 
at all hinder his "running the race which is set be- 
fore him." He cannot, therefore, lay up treasures 
upon earth, no more than he can take fire into his 
bosom. He cannot speak evil of his neighbor, any 
more than he can lie either for God or man. 

February 24. The water without the ship may 
toss it; but it is the water tvithin the ship which 
sinks it. We may be in the world, but not of the 
world. 

Eeader, remember, Christ is the unseen Guest at 
every meal and the silent listener to every conversa- 
tion. 

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February 25. Man, shipwrecked by the first 
transgression, is east upon the troubled sea, exposed 
to all its dangers; ignorant and helpless, he is 
"tossed upon life's stormy billows.' ' Wave after 
wave rolls him onward to destruction; the whirl- 
pool opens wide its mouth to "swallow him whole, 
as those that go down into the pit." Is all lost? 
Must he become a prey to the devouring elements? 
Ah ! is there no eye to pity? no arm to save? Oh! 
divine compassion! "God so loved the world," 
that the life-boat is launched ; Jesus is in the midst 
of her and comes to seek and to save that which was 
lost. 

February 26. The Golden Censer: "Fire in the 
censer was brought from the altar of sacrifice. The 
fire came down from God. No human fire was 
allowed. When our all is on the altar, God will 
send the fire. Human heat, excitement and effort 
are a strange fire to put on the altar of God." 

February 27. Cease, beloved, from yourself; 
from your own things and works. Let the Holy 
Ghost have play. Get still from restless activity, 
and give Him a chance to speak and to do. 



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February 28. We must remember, that we have 
a great work to do, many enemies to conquer, many 
evils to prevent, much danger to run through, many 
difficulties to be mastered, many necessities to serve, 
and much good to do. 

February 29. It is to be considered, that the 
fruit which comes from the many days of recrea- 
tion and vanity is very little ; and, although we scat- 
ter much, yet we gather but little profit : but from 
the few hours we spend in prayer and the exercise 
of a pious life, the return is great and profitable ; 
and what we sow in the minutes and spare portion 
of a few years, grows up to crowns and sceptres in 
a happy and a glorious eternity. 

Love warms more than a thousand fires. Love 
rules without law. Love is master of all arts. 
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so 
fast, as love can with only a single thread. Love 
is an alchemist, that can transmute poison into food. 



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MARCH 

March 1. "The Lord is my light and my salva- 
tion; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength 
of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When 
the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came 
upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 
Though an host shall encamp against me, my heart 
shall not fear. ' ' (Psl. 27 : 1-3. ) 

March 2. We live by faith, stand by faith, walk 
by faith, fight by faith, overcome by faith, and ob- 
tain the crown by faith. "Be thou faithful unto 
death, and I will give you a crown of life." (Rev. 
2:10.) 

March 3. Surrender self to him. Let your con- 
quered spirit keep quiet. Let your lips be closed, 
your tongue be tied, your voice be hushed, your 
look be love. Let Him control, and a sound of 
gentle stillness will permeate your being, spreading 
the sweet aroma of peace and delight upon all 

around. 

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March 4. None, therefore, ought to believe that 
the work is done, till there is added the testimony 
of the Spirit, witnessing his entire sanctification, 
as clearly as his justification, " Hereby know we 
that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He 
hath given us of His Spirit." (1 Jno. 14: 13.) 

March 5. A person may be sincere who has all 
his natural tempers, pride, anger, lust, selfwill. 
But he is not perfect till his heart is cleansed from 
these and all its other corruption. 

March 6. Always remember, much grace does 
not imply much light. These do not always go to- 
gether. As there may be much light where there 
is but little love, so there may be much love where 
there is little light. Let modesty and self-diffidence 
appear in all your words and actions. Let all you 
speak and do show that you are little and base, and 
mean, and vile in your own eyes. 

March 7. He who was once the "babe of Bethle- 
hem, lying in a manger — He who was once the 
meek "Man of sorrows," having not "where to 
lay His head," will again descend to this lower 
world, not, as once, the helpless infant, the "de- 

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spised and rejected of men," the insulted, buf- 
feted, scourged, and crucified One, but as the 
" mighty God," the Sovereign of the universe, the 
"Judge of all men." He comes now, not to weep 
over Jerusalem; not to suffer hunger, and toil, 
and weariness ; not to listen to malignant cries of 
fiendish foes — "Away with Him! Away with 
Him!" But seated upon a throne of glory more 
brilliant than ten thousand suns, to sway His judi- 
cial sceptre over men and devils. 

March 8. As he ought to suffer the greater pun- 
ishment who throws poison into a common well, 
where all men draw water ; so offend they most, and 
are with all extremity to be tormented, who cor- 
rupt the public mind by false teaching. 

March 9. Justification will save us from scold- 
ing and getting out of patience when things go 
wrong. Sanctification will keep us from ever feel- 
ing stirred and impatient under similar circum- 
stances. 

March 10. God will not put forth a hand and 
lift a man to heaven in his sleep ; or drag him in 
against his will. "When counsel and reproof are 

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rejected, then, ' ' there remaineth nothing but a fear- 
ful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, 
which shall devour the adversary.' ' 

March 11. From many a ruined fortune, Wis- 
dom cries, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep 
it holy." From many an outcast in his agonies, 
when the eagles of the valley are picking out his 
eyes, Wisdom cries, "Honor thy father and thy 
mother, that thy days may be long. ' ' From many 
a gloomy scaffold, Wisdom cries, "Thou shalt not 
kill." Every law of nature, and every event in 
history, has a tongue by which Wisdom proclaims 
God's holiness, and rebukes man's sins. 

March 12. Because a garden with young grow- 
ing vegetables is cleansed of all poisonous and hurt- 
ful weeds which would retard the progress of their 
growth, is no evidence whatever the vegetables are 
mature; so, also, a heart cleansed is not a heart 
mature. " Sanctification is not finality," but be- 
ginning. 

March 13. Many words do not satisfy the soul ; 
but a good life calms the mind, and a pure con- 
science gives great confidence towards God. 

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The more you know and understand, the heavier 
will be your judgment, unless, in consequence of 
your great knowledge, your life is a more holy one. 

March 14. Beware of judging people to be 
either right or wrong by your own feelings. This 
is no Scriptural way of judging. 0, keep close to 
"the law and the testimony.'' 

March 15. A prominent branch on the tree of 
pride is a spirit of independence, viz., a haughty 
spirit which does not like to acknowledge before 
men its need of God's assistance. This keeps more 
people from the altar, prevents more confessions 
and apologies than anything we could mention. A 
disposition which is not willing to freely and 
frankly acknowledge one's mistakes and faults if 
called upon to do so, is the progeny of pride. 

March 16. Be careful then, how you violate 
your conscience. Attend to its demands, even in 
the slightest particular. Its sharp edge is easily 
blunted. Its still small voice is readily silenced. 
Its faithful warnings, if unheeded, fail to be re- 
peated. You will be left the sport of circumstances, 
a compass without a needle, a ship without a rud- 
der. 

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March 17. When tempted by the enemy to re- 
sign from the conference, give up the work of God, 
withdraw from the church, rebut that insinuating 
article or hastily reply to that provoking letter, 
Btop and think a moment ; and see if it will be to 
the glory of God, see if yon are blessed or tempted. 
t Think the matter over carefully and watch the 
final outcome for others who took the same hasty 
step. 

March 18. Never think that God's delays are 
God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. 
"With time and patience," says one, "the mul- 
berry-leaf becomes satire. ' ' All comes right to him 
who can wait. 

March 19. Let our employment be such as be- 
comes a Christian ; that is, in no sense mingled withi 
sin; for he that takes pains to serve the end of 
covetousness, or ministers to another's lust, or keeps 
a shop of impurities or intemperance, is idle in the 
worst sense ; for every hour so spent runs him back- 
ward, and must be spent again in the remaining and 
shorter part of his life, and spent better. 

March 20. There is no middle ground regarding 
influence. It is either good or bad, strong or weak. 

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It either helps or hinders ; lifts up, or pushes down. 
It works when you wake, and forgets not to toil 
on while your are sleeping. 

Your influence makes it easier for others to live, 
or increases their struggle to be true. 

March 21. Love is patient and kind. Love 
knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not 
forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and con- 
ceited. She does not behave unbecomingly, nor 
seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passion- 
ate anger, nor brood over wrongs. She finds no 
pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully 
sides with the truth. 

March 22. Envy has made a bloody trail all the 
way from creation's dawn to the present day. We 
find it in Cain, the proto-murderer, who slew his 
brother. We find it in the dark, gloomy and re- 
vengeful spirit of Saul, who plotted for years the 
slaughter of David. We find it in the King of 
Israel when he pined for the vineyard of Naboth 
and shed his blood to obtain it. It was envy that 
crucified the Lord Jesus ; for the evangelist tells us, 
that "for envy, the Jews delivered our Lord." 



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March 23. Holiness of character does not mean 
the absence of sensitiveness, but it does mean that 
the holy man does right regardless of how he may 
feel as to the way any one treats him. The better 
a man is, the more tender his heart will be, con- 
sequently the more he will feel an insult or an in- 
jury; but instead of being turned aside from the 
way of holiness he will adhere the more strictly 
thereto. 

March 24. It is a universal law, unalterable as 
God, and lasting as eternity, that no created being 
can be truly holy, useful or happy, who is know- 
ingly and deliberately out of the line of Divine 
co-operation even for a moment. 

March 25. What is so sweet a good as Christ, 
and what is so great an evil as lust ? Sin brought 
many a believer into suffering, and suffering has 
instrumentally kept many a believer out of sin. It 
is better to be preserved in brine, than to rot in 
honey. 

March 26. It is impossible to be conformed to 
the world in our outward man, and transformed 
to God in our inward man. There is no such a 

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thing as being an outward heathen and an inward 
Christian. Tell me where you go, and I will tell 
you what you do. 

March 27. Said Mr. Finnie: — "I received a 
mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost * * * I could 
feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, go- 
ing through me. Indeed it seemed to come in 
waves and waves of liquid love ; for I could not ex- 
press it in any other way. I can recollect distinctly 
that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings. 

No word can express the wonderful love that was 
shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy 
and love ; and I do not know but I should say, I 
literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of 
my heart.' ' 

March 28. When like Paul, you can throw all 
your suffering on Jesus, thus converting it into a 
means of knowing his overcoming grace and can 
say from a surrendered heart "most gladly" there- 
fore do I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, 
in distresses, in necessities, in persecutions for 
Christ's sake, — that is victory. 

March 29. Wait a little while, and you shall see 
the speedy end of your evils. The hour will come 

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when there shall be an end of all toil and tumult. 
Poor and brief is all that passes away with time. 
Do what you have to do, work faithfully in My 
vineyard; I will be your reward. 

March 30. Joshua and the children of Israel are 
said to have been deceived by the Gibeonites, be- 
cause they did not first seek counsel at the mouth 
of the Lord, but putting too much reliance in fair 
ufords, they were deluded by a pretended piety. 
Reader, beware. 

March 31. Do not make it a matter of moment, 
who may be for you or against you ; but let it be 
your business and care, that God be with you in 
all you do. 

The perversity of man cannot injure those whom 
God wills to befriend. 



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APRIL 

April 1. Holy intention is to the actions of a 
man that which the soul is to the body, or form 
to its matter, or root to the tree, or the sun to the 
world, or the fountain to a river, or the base to a 
pillar ; for, without these, the body is a dead trunk, 
the matter is sluggish, the tree is a block, the world 
is darkness, the river is quickly dry, the pillar 
rushes into flatness and ruin ; and the action is sin- 
ful, or unprofitable and vain. 

April 2. "When an enemy reproaches us, let us 
look on him as an impartial relater of our faults, 
for he will tell thee truer than thy fondest friend 
will; and thou mayest call them precious balms, 
though they break thy head, and forgive his anger, 
while thou makest use of the plainness of his dec- 
lamation. 

April 3. The ox, when he is weary, treads surest; 
and if there be nothing else in the disgrace, but 
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fear of our enemies, that is better than to be flat- 
tered into pride and carelessness. 

April 4. In heaven, we shall share the society 
of the pious of all ages and all countries. There 
they " shall come from the east and west, and shall 
sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the 
kingdom of heaven. ' ' ( Matt. 8:11.) We shall hold 
converse with "prophets and righteous men" of 
olden time. "We shall listen to the orations of Enoch 
and Elijah, of Abraham and Job, of Moses and 
Samuel, of David and Isaiah, of Daniel and Ezekiel, 
of Peter and James, of Paul and John. If a few 
moments on Mount Tabor, where Moses and Elijah 
talked with Jesus, so entranced the apostles, with 
what thrilling emotions must the soul of the re- 
deemed be inspired, when on the eternal mount on 
high they shall listen to the sublime strains in 
which so many eloquent and immortal tongues shall 
comment on the stupendous wonder of redemption. 

April 5. Not a word of murmuring nor com- 
plaining in supplication, not a word of nagging nor 
persuading. Let language be simple ; gentle, quiet ; 
you utter not a word, but give Him opportunity 
to speak. Harken to hear His Voice. Listen to 

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obey. This is the way to honor and to know Him. 
Not a word — not the last word ! 

April 6. Going slow in divine things never 
comes in a Christian life until the impetuous will, 
the rash judgment, the hasty expression, the fever- 
ish excitement, and the green zeal of the soul, have 
all been crucified and chastened by many a painful 
experience into a quiet, thoughtful, measured peace, 
which indicates a real likeness to God. In fact, 
there is no one thing in a saintly life more super- 
natural, more like the image of God, than the art 
of divine recollection and going slow. 

April 7. One of our great mistakes is, we see 
God as a far-off God. We allow too much space 
between us and Him. We pray as if He was mil- 
lions of miles away. But He has said, "Lro, I am 
with you always.' ' "I will never leave thee or 
forsake thee. M "I will dwell in them. ' ' Oh, what 
a reproof to our unbelief ! 

April 8. Lord, search my love, and see if there 
is any creature or thing in the universe that is 
sharing my heart. Yes, see if there is anything 
under the sun that I enjoy more than Thee, that I 

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sacrifice to more than Thee, that I ihink of more 
than Thee, that I disadvantage myself for as much 
as I do for Thee. 

April 9. Honor, rank, and dignities are like saf- 
fron, which thrives best and grows more plenti- 
fully for being trodden under foot. It is no longer 
an honor to be handsome when a man prizes him- 
self for it ; beauty, to have a good grace, should be 
disregarded ; and learning is a disgrace to us, when 
it puffs us up and degenerates into pedantry. 

April 10. Complain as little as possible of the 
wrongs done you ; for, commonly speaking, he who 
complains, sins, because self-love always makes us 
believe the injuries done to us greater than they 
really are. 

April 11. Let the ways of childish confidence 
and freedom from care, which so please you and 
win your hearts in your own little ones, teach you 
what should be your way with God; and leave 
yourself in His hands, learn to be literally care- 
ful for nothing ; and you shall find it to be a fact 
that the peace of God which passeth all under- 
standing shall keep (as with a garrison) your 
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

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"Trust in the Lord and do good: so shalt thou 
dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. ' ' 

April 12. Better and sweeter than health, or 
friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, 
is the adorable will of God. It gilds the darkest 
hours with a divine halo, and sheds brightest sun- 
shine on the gloomiest paths. He always reigns 
who has made it his Kingdom ; and nothing can go 
amiss to him. Surely, then, it is only a glorious 
privilege that is opening before you when I tell 
you that the first step you must make in order to 
enter into the life hid with Christ in God, is that 
of entire consecration. 

April 13. All the promises in the Bible are so 
many bills of exchange, drawn by God, the Father 
in heaven, upon His son Jesus Christ, and pay- 
able to every pious bearer — to every one that 
comes to the Mercy Seat, and offers the promise or 
bill of acceptance, and pleads in the way of obe- 
dient faith and prayer. 

April 14. Moses prays, and Amalek is defeated ; 
Joshua prays, Achan is discovered. Hannah 
prays, Samuel is born; Asa prays, a victory is 

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gained. Jehosaphat cries to God, and his foes are 
turned away. Isaiah and Hezekiah pray, and a 
hundred and eighty-five thousand Assyrians are 
dead in twelve hours. 

April 15. A zigzag life is one of sin and con- 
demnation. Professor of religion, is this your 
condition? Your good standing in the church, 
your high profession of religion or holiness, does not 
shield you from the curse of God, for he "That of- 
fendeth in one point is guilty of all," and, "Who- 
soever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doc- 
trine of Christ, hath not God. ' ' But there is mercy 
for you. Give up the old worthless hope and your 
zigzag experience, and come to Jesus in repentance 
and faith, and you shall find the way of life. 

April 16. The following are some of the marks 
of an unbridled tongue: Excessive conversation. 
Exaggerated discourse. Foolish talking and jest- 
ing. Controversy. Back-biting or slander. Idle 
words and lying. A religion that does not bridle 
the tongue is a vain delusion. 

April 17. Perfect love is distinguished by the 
character of its enjoyments. It craves the spir- 

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itual, the holy, and divine. Its enjoyments are 
purely religious; they are sought by prayer, read- 
ing the Scriptures, pious meditations, and by acts 
of Christian duty and usefulness. The enjoyments 
of a pure heart are sweet, rational, and unwasting. 

April 18. No Christain is cleansed into matu- 
rity, nor do any grow into purity. The Bible no- 
where promises maturity as a work of God by faith, 
but purity it does. Even a "babe in Christ" may 
be cleansed from all inbred sin and become a pure 
Christian; but a "babe in Christ" becomes a 
"young man" and "a father" by growth and de- 
velopment, and not by cleansing power. 

April 19. If you want the praise of men, and 
must have it, then abandon all idea of being a 
Christian. Did not the Master say, "Woe unto you 
when all men speak well of you"? Who that ever 
served God with fidelity, was the favorite of the 
generation in which he lived? "Which of the 
prophets have not your fathers persecuted?" Are 
we better than they? Then do not compromise the 
truth of God to please men. 

April 20. When one departs from the strictest 
uprightness, he cannot tell where he will drift. He 

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puts himself in the power of his enemy, who seeks 
only to drag him down to destruction. Little sins 
grow into great sins, and often they grow with 
startling rapidity. 

April 21. Some are wanting in gentleness. They 
resist evil, instead of turning the other cheek. They 
do not receive reproach with gentleness; no, nor 
even reproof. Nay, they are not able to bear con- 
tradiction, without the appearance, at least, of re* 
sentment. If they are reproved, though mildly, 
they do not take it well ; they behave with more dis- 
tance and reserve than they did before. If they are 
reproved or contradicted harshly, they answer it 
with harshness; with a loud voice, or with angry 
tone, or in a sharp, surly manner. They speak 
sharply or roughly when they reprove others ; and 
behave roughly to their inferiors. 

April 22. If you fear God, how dare you suffer 
a child above a year old to say ' ' I will do what you 
forbid," and go unpunished? Why do you not 
stop him at once, that he may never say so again ? 
Have you no compassion for your child? No re- 
gard for his salvation or destruction? Why, dis- 
obedience is as certain a way to damnation as 
cursing and swearing. 

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April 23. You have nothing to do but to save 
souls. Therefore, spend and be spent in this work. 
And go always, not only to those who need you, but 
to those who need you most. 

April 24. No martyr 's suffering in the torture 
chamber can bear a comparison to the keen anguish 
Christ suffered in both mind and body, or reveal 
such calm, uncomplaining fortitude while enduring 
it. He went to the limit of human suffering. Dur- 
ing His life, Jesus met every form of temptation, 
every experience that can come to a man, for a 
twofold purpose: 1. "For in that He himself 
hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor 
them that are tempted. ' ' ( Heb. 2:18.) 2. That 
whenever we are in deep trial and temptation, we 
may remember that our Saviour passed through 
the same, and has promised to "make a way of es- 
cape' J for us in every instance. 

April 25. Be steady and fearless in the discharge 
of your duty, without failing in that respect which 
is due to higher powers. Why should you fear 
puny man and shrink from delivering a God-sent 
(message? His foundation is in the dust, his life 
but a vapor, his breath in his nostrils (that is 

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ready to depart) ; his beauty only on the skin ; his 
power an idiot's boast, and his health swinging 
upon circumstances. 

April 26. "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if 
the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be 
salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to 
be cast out. Ye are the light of the world. A city 
that is set on a hill cannot be hid * * * Let 
your light so shine before men, that they may see 
your good works, and glorify your Father which 
is in Heaven. ' ' (Matt. 5 : 13-16. ) 

April 27. A church without the apostles would 
be like a building with no foundation; without 
prophets, i. e., preachers, like a body with no mouth ; 
without evangelists, like a wholesale house with no 
traveling agents; without teachers, like a school 
without instructors; without pastors, like sheep 
without a shepherd ; without helps, like a body with- 
out hands or feet ; without governments, like a 
state with no laws or offices. Deprive the church 
of these divine appointments, and you thus cripple 
her power, and make her like Sampson when shorn 
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April 28. Tfye gift of healing, which has been 
neglected and abused by so many of God's so-called 
children, is catalogued with the nine gifts as a per- 
manent fixture in the Pentecostal church. What 
God has thus joined together, let no man try to put 
asunder. If he does not possess it, let him not try 
to trim God's church to suit his own experience. 

April 29. ' ' Faithfulness" is to be perfectly true 
to a covenant, a promise, a duty, a responsibility: 
the sacred keeping of a trust, or a special commis- 
sion that is given us of God. This is the greatest 
principle of character in God or in man. 

April 30. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing, 
stronger, nothing higher, nothing broader, nothing 
more pleasant, nothing better either in heaven or 
earth, because love is born of God ; and rising above 
all created things, can find its rest in Him alone. 

Love looks not at the gift but has its eye upon 
the Giver more than upon all goods. 

Love knows no limits but is fervent beyond all 
bounds. 

Love never feels a burden, never thinks things 
tasks, willingly attempts what is above its strength, 
never argues that things are impossible ; because all 

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things seem to it possible and lawful to be Tinder- 
taken. 

Love watches, and slumbering, does not sleep ; if 
weary, it wearies not; if restrained, it is not 
straitened; if fearful, it is not dismayed; but as 
a living flame and glowing torch it bursts upward, 
and safely keeps its onward course. 



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MAY 

May 1. "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all 
ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come be- 
fore His presence with singing. Know ye that the 
Lord He is God : it is He that hath made us, and not 
we ourselves : we are His people, and the sheep of 
His pasture. ' ' ( Psl. 100:1-3.) 

May 2. The surest way of turning a person 
from one pleasure is to give him a greater pleasure 
on the opposite side. A weeping willow, planted by 
a pond in a pleasure-garden, turns all to one side 
in its growth, and that the side on which the water 
lies. No dealing, either with its roots or with its 
branches, will avail to change its attitude; but 
place a larger expanse of water on the opposite side, 
and the tree will turn spontaneously, and hang the 
other way. So it is with the outbranching affec- 
tions of the human heart. Follies and vices on this 
side are sweet to its depraved nature. The joys 
are shallow at the best, but it knows no other, and 
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f orth. It will never be turned unless you can open 
a rival joy, wider and deeper, on the other side. 
This God has done in "Full Salvation." 

May 3. Habituate yourself to speak to others on 
the concern of salvation. If reproof be necessary, 
"deal prudently," but never shrink from it to any 
one. Be faithful, pointed, plain and affectionate. 
Show that you have the good of the reproved at 
heart. 

May 4. " Know thyself. ' ' Deny thyself. Gov- 
ern thyself. Abhor and flee from the "appearance 
of evil." Guard the senses. Avoid occasions to 
impurity of heart. Eat and drink "to the glory 
of God." Eat to live, rather than live to eat. Be 
careful of health. Avoid repletion. 

May 5. A very small thing can hinder us in se- 
cret prayer. Sometimes if you have a kettle on the 
stove boiling, the devil will use that as a means to 
hinder you from having your mind wholly on God, 
for fear its contents will burn ; so when you go to 
pray, set the kettle off the fire. 

May 6. Lord, search my heart, and see if it con- 
tain any anger, any envy, any pride, any jealousy, 

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any impatience, any malice, any prejudice, any big- 
otry, any impetuousness, any covetousness, any lust, 
any fear of man that bringeth a snare, any hypoc- 
risy, any shrinking, any evil shame, any false mod- 
esty, any unbelief, any self-love, any love of praise, 
any love of authority or love of prominence. 

Search my thoughts and see if they are such as 
would prevent me from being admitted into a sin- 
less heaven to dwell with a Holy God. 

May 7. Words make trouble. Be still. This is 
the voice of the Spirit. Take no thought for to- 
morrow ; worry not about home, church or business 
cares. Cast all on Him, and not a word. We think 
so hard, pray so hard and trust so hard that we 
become unrestful and disquieted and noisy, and thus 
drive Him away. Worry makes the place of His 
abiding unpleasant, and He leaves. 

May 8. Moses, that memorable worthy, "Choose 
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, 
than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. ' ' 

That was a noble expression of a noble Christian, 
"Whatsoever I thankfully receive as a token of 
God's love to me, I part with contentedly as a token 
of my love to Him." 

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May 9. Said Matthew Henry: "I would think 
it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than 
mountains of silver and gold to myself. If I do 
not gain souls, I shall enjoy all other gains with 
very little satisfaction. 

Reader, have you the burden of souls on your 
heart? John Hunt possessed such a passion for 
souls that he left parents and country in the fresh- 
ness and vigor of youth, with locks as black as 
raven's wing, soon to become white and hoary with 
labor. 

May 10. Some reasons why Christians cannot be 
Freemasons: 1. Because it strips a man of his 
manhood. It is degrading for a Christian man to 
be led into a lodge room, half nude, blindfolded, and 
with a halter around his neck. 2. Because it en- 
slaves men. A Mason is sworn to obey the com- 
mands of a lodge. 3. Because Freemasonry pro- 
fanes the ordinance of the oath. It is taking the 
name of the Lord in vain. 4. Because it is dan- 
gerous to society. They are sworn to help each 
other, right or wrong. 5. Because it recognizes 
no religion but the universal religion of nature. 
Masonic authority says: "As Masons, we only 

pursue the religion of nature.' ' Pagan, Jew, all 

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unite in this ; but to suit them, the name of Christ 
must be dropped. Can a Christian go where Christ 
is purposely left out? 

May 11. "Do unto all men as you would they 
should do unto you," were you in their circum- 
stances. As a sacred duty, visit the sick. Always 
pray with them. Read to them the Scriptures. 
Ascertain their state. Lead them to Christ. Cul- 
tivate the disposition of compassion to the poor; 
care for their spiritual interest. 

May 12. Think truly : speak kindly : act nobly : 
be sincere. The ideal is high. There is a way to 
reach it. Walk with Him and He will come in 
and live with you. I speak of Jesus. 

May 13. It shows as wrong a turn of mind, as 
false a judgment, and as great a contempt for the 
true good, to neglect any degree of piety, for the 
sake of business, as for any the most trifling pleas- 
ure of life. Let but religion determine the point, 
and what can it signify, whether a man forgets 
God in his farm, or shop or at a gambling table? 
For there is no wisdom or reason in anything but 
religion, nor is any way of life less vain than an- 

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other, but as it conspires with the design of Reli- 
gion to raise mankind to a participation of the 
Divine Nature. 

May 14. Whatever degrees therefore of holiness 
or inward perfection were required of the first fol- 
lowers of Christ, is still in the same degree and for 
the same reasons required of all Christians to the 
end of the world. Humility, meekness, heavenly 
affection, devotion, charity, and a contempt of the 
world, are all internal qualities of personal holiness. 

May 15. Hath Heaven or earth suffered any 
change since our Saviour's time? Is the world be- 
come now more worth our notice, or heavenly treas- 
ure of less value, than it was in our Saviour's time? 
Have we had another Saviour since, that has com- 
pounded things with this world, and helped us to 
an easier way to the next ? 

May 16. God loves to see the counterpart of His 
own absolute goodness and grandeur in men, and 
these, too, up to the point of highest finite possi- 
bility * * * Accordingly He has constituted 
man free, that he may be responsible. He has 
gifted him with the power of choice, that his good 

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or evil may be the product of his own act. He has 
exposed him to temptation, that his integrity may 
not turn out to be accidental, for the want of tests, 
much less necessitated by compulsory circum- 
stances. 

May 17. Progress in any state of grace will be 
according to the soul's implicit obedience to all of 
God's revealed will. This same condition was im- 
posed on the holy pair in their primitive state of 
holiness and innocence. Even in that state im- 
provement and development were to be gained by 
exercise. 

May 18. All great soul-winners have been men 
of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals 
have been preceded and carried on by persevering, 
prevailing knee-work in the closet. Before Jesus 
began His ministry, when great multitudes followed 
Him, He spent forty days and nights in secret 
prayer and fasting. (Matt. 4 : 1-11.) 

May 19. In agriculture, sowing is just as im- 
portant as reaping; in fact, it is the very founda- 
tion of it. There could be no reaping if there had 
been no sowing. One goes to work and sows the 

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seeds of truth, and, for some reason perhaps known 
only to God, it does not bear immediate fruit. Some 
one else comes along, puts in the sickle, reaps a 
glorious harvest, and departs amid a great flourish 
of trumpets. His predecessor may be looked upon 
as a failure. He may, and likely will be, tempted 
to think so himself. Probably if the reaper had 
taken the sower's place and had been surrounded 
by the same conditions, he would not have fared 
any better himself. But then the reward of the 
sower is just as certain as that of the reaper. 

May 20. Withdraw, then, your spirit from time 
to time, into your heart, where, separated from all 
men, you may familiarly treat on the business of 
your soul with God. 

May 21. Consider that the present day is given 
you, in order that in it you may gain the future day 
of eternity, make a firm purpose, therefore, to em- 
ploy it well, with this intention. 

May 22. A glance over the past will remind 
us that the Holy Spirit has always developed the 
tallest characters through pain and suffering. 
Abraham was never the "father of the faithful," 
until after that awful tragedy on Mount Moriah. 

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Isaac is remembered far his endurance. Jacob 
was a supplanter until, between two millstones, the 
(meanness was ground out of him. And even 
Joseph, the most faultless character, had to reach 
his throne through the sorrow and shame of Egypt's 
prison cell. 

May 23. "While we do not teach or believe any 
man can become so good and holy he could not sin 
if he wanted to, we do believe and teach that men 
may be so thoroughly saved they will not want to, 
and by the grace of God, do not commit sin. We do 
not say we have not power to sin, yet all may know 
of an experience where they have power not to com- 
mit sin. "He that committeth sin is of the devil." 

May 24. Kash judgment begets uneasiness, con- 
tempt of our neighbor, pride, self-complacency, and 
a hundred other most pernicious effects. The ser- 
pent's tongue is forked, and has two points; so is 
that of the slanderer, who at one stroke stings and 
poisons the ear of the hearer, and the reputation of 
him of whom he speaks. 

May 25. The properties of a glorified body: 
First, ' ' the just shall shine like the sun $ " so shone 

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the faces of Moses and Stevens. Second: they 
1 * shall fly upon the wings of the wind ; ' ' thus Philip 
was carried from Gaza, in the desert, to Azobus. 
Third, "our corruption must put on incorruption ; ' ' 
as St. Paul miraculously shook off the serpent, and 
felt no harm. 

May 26. It seems to be the purpose of God in the 
present dispensation to do good to His creatures, 
by the inequality of their conditions. The design 
of the providential arrangement is to produce gen- 
tle, humble, contented thankfulness on the one side, 
and open-hearted, open-handed, liberality on the 
other. If God had not intended to exercise these 
graces, He probably would have made and kept 
men, as to external comforts, all in a state of equal- 
ity. But this would not have been the best condi- 
tion for human beings, or for any portion of them, 
Absolute equality of condition may do for cattle, 
but not for men. 

May 27. Trials are more precious than gold be- 
cause they wean us from the world. While gold 
has the effect of making us settle down and be sat- 
isfied with this world, this world is not our home, 

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strangers and pilgrims in the earth. Mr. Roths- 
child was the richest man in the world, but he lived 
and died in an unfinished mansion. One of the 
cornices of his house was purposely unfinished to 
bear testimony that he was a pilgrim in the land. 

May 28. It is just as necessary for us to be ac- 
quainted with the voice of Satan as it is to know the 
voice of the Holy Spirit. There are numberless 
good people in the church to-day who are tormented 
by the devil on non-essential things and unscrip- 
tural suggestions. He makes them believe they 
must do this or that ; or he tells them they must go 
here or go there, etc., etc. Now, these poor souls 
are so conscientious that they are willing to do any- 
thing that they think is God's will, therefore the 
devil takes advantage of them at this point. 

May 29. Haste is generally the cause of all rail- 
road wrecks. It is not the slow trains that are so 
often wrecked, but the "express," the "fast mail," 
and the "fliers." So it is in the religious world; 
it is not generally the level-headed, thoughtful, 
slow, even-spirited Christians who jump the track 
and go into the ditch, but it is impetuous, hasty, 
hurry-up crowd. It is almost invariably true, that 

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those who go at things in a hasty, hurry-up way, 
will sooner or later have to be pulled out of the 
ditch. 

May 30. "The firmament showeth His handi- 
work/ f Who have not climbed up to some moun- 
tain summit and sat down in nature's lap and 
viewed the waving forest, dancing cascades, shin- 
ing rivers, with fantastic visions of rocks, and ferns, 
wild flowers and trees, and floating clouds ; where 
the shining texture of leaf and blade wave a gossa- 
mer that hangs like a veil in the dreamy haze. 

The soul that walks with God can see Him every- 
where from the fact the firmament sheweth His 
handiwork. 

May 31. What a child would do in the eye of 
his father ; a pupil before his tutor ; and a wife in 
the presence of her husband ; and a servant in the 
sight of his master ; let us always do the same ; for 
we are made a spectacle to God, to angels, and to 
men; we are always in the sight and presence of 
the all-seeing and almighty God, who also is to us 
a Father and a Guardian, a Husband and a Lord. 

Lord, teach us to walk always as in Thy presence, 
to fear Thy majesty, to reverence Thy wisdom and 

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omniscience; that we may never dare to commit 
any indecency in the eye of our Lord and our 
Judge; but that we may with so much care and 
reverence demean ourselves that our Judge may 
not be our accuser but our advocate. 

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the 
want of courage. The servants of the Lord should 
be as bold for their Master as the Devil's servants 
are for theirs. We fear men so much, because we 
fear God so little. 



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JUNE 

June 1. "Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the 
Lord from the heavens : praise Him in the highest. 

Praise ye Him, all His angels ; praise ye Him, all 
His host. Praise ye Him, sun and moon; praise 
Him, all ye stars of light." (Psl. 148 : 1-3.) 

June 2. If you do not put on gold or pearls, then 
do not put on any imitation of gold or pearls. Not 
only avoid evil, hut avoid the appearance of evil. 
If you have abandoned cigars, do not put a dude 
smoking-cap on your head. If a young lady can- 
not wear a feather on her hat, then she should not 
bunch up a quantity of ribbon to take its place. 
If you have renounced the devil, then renounce 
the devil's substitutes. 

June 3. Much prayer before a matter is decided 

upon would often save from much suffering which 

results from a wrong decision which has been made. 

It is better not to move at all than to go against 

the providences of God. He has a place for each of 

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us, and a work for each of us to do. Let us seek 
to find our work and our place, and accept them 
thankfully, however humble they may be. 

June 4. Keep up a daily, or rather a perpetual, 
devotement of all to God. Search and surrender, 
re-search and surrender again, and keep every ves- 
tige of self upon the altar under the consuming, sin- 
destroying flame. Entire sanctification cannot con- 
tinue without continual submission to God. "Sub- 
mit yourselves, therefore, to God. ' ' 

June 5. Eemember the life of the Christian is 
a life of faith. We are justified by faith, sanctified 
by faith, and must stand by faith. There must be 
a continuous faith. Faith, in the entirely sancti- 
fied, becomes in a sense a state of mind — a habit of 
the soul. We must give up all idea of resisting 
temptation, or of acceptably performing any serv- 
ice for Christ, by the mere force of our own reso- 
lutions. This is to be your victory, "even your 
faith/ ' "The life which I now live in the flesh, 
I live by the faith of the Son of God." 

June 6. No saint was ever so profoundly rapt 

or illuminated as never to have known temptation 

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from first to last. For no one is worthy of the sub- 
lime contemplation of God, who for God has never 
endured tribulation. For it is usual for tribula- 
tion to go before consolation, and to be a sign of 
its approach. 

June 7. When we have received any favor from 
God, we ought to retire, if not into our closets, 
into our hearts, and say, "I come, Lord, to restore 
to thee what thou hast given; and I freely relin- 
quish it to enter again into my own nothingness.' ' 
For what is the most perfect creature in heaven or 
earth in thy presence, but a void capable of being 
filled with thee and by thee ; as the air, which is 
void and dark, is capable of being filled with the 
light of the sun. 

June 8. The best means of resisting the devil 
is to destroy whatever of the world remains in us, 
in order to raise for God, upon its ruins, a building 
all of love. Then shall we begin, in this fleeting 
life, to love God as we shall love Him in eternity. 

June 9. If you turn to look at the way all flesh 
is going, and get your eyes in the same direction 
that all the corrupt things of earth are traveling, 

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your soul is stifled with vexation; but when you 
turn your face toward Jesus and heaven, and go op- 
posite to all the things and the circumstances of this 
world, you meet a cool, bracing air, the dust of 
earth is blown behind you, and your soul is re- 
freshed by the prospect of eternal things 

June 10. Those who have a little love with much 
foam of profession, will never consent to go on the 
ground floor, or in the basement of religious life, 
and take on the lowest form of service. The great- 
est saints on earth are those who can go down the 
lowest. This is the law of divine love that those 
who are the tallest in the knowledge of God can 
descend the deepest toward men. 

June 11. Why don't you reti^n those borrowed 
books that you have had in your library for some 
time? Did you ever stop to think that it is a re- 
fined way of stealing a book? Please get them out 
immediately and send them home, or God will re- 
cord you as a "book-thief \" which is just as bad 
in His sight as a horse-thief. 

June 12. As the devout soul continues his enam- 
ored walk with God, he reaches a stage where noth- 

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ing detracts or interrupts his devotion and inward 
communion ; nothing hinders his upward march to 
the City of God. He does not have to live in re- 
tirement in a cave to satisfactorily serve God, but 
holds unbroken communion everywhere, both on 
land and sea. 

June 13. The wholly sanctified soul is meek, lowly 
and self-f orgetf ul so that he never rushes or pushes 
ahead of others in order to obtain the most comfort- 
able seat or the easiest place, but is so conscientious 
and careful that he would not infringe upon the 
rights of the most insignificant being in the world. 
(Matt. 7:12.) The tide of humility has risen so 
high in his soul that he feels inferior to every human 
being on earth; therefore he could joyfully wash 
the feet of his greatest enemy. 

June 14. There is something about the char- 
acter of God, and it pervades all His creation, and 
every branch of His government, which bespeaks 
the infinite gentleness of His nature. He clothes 
all the vast and rugged forms of His works with a 
majestic quietness, and velvet gentleness, which 
betrays the character of His mind. He drapes the 
rough mountains with green shrubbery, or the soft 

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blue air; even storms are edged around with a 
fringe of delicacy, and none of the stupendous 
works of God in ocean, earth, or air, or flying 
worlds, have the severe, raw-head and blood-bone 
appearance, which would have been the case if a 
creature had made them* 

June 15. It is reported that Baxter stained his 
study walls with praying breath, and, after receiv- 
ing a rich anointing of the Holy Ghost, he sent a 
river of living water through Kidderminster, and 
was the means of converting hundreds. 

June 16. If a man visit his sick friend, and 
watches at his pillow for charity's sake, and because 
of his old affection, we approve it ; but if he does it 
in hope of legacy, he is a vulture and only watches 
for the carcass. 

June 17. Let him that is most busied set apart 
some solemn time every year, in which, for the time, 
quitting all worldly business that he may attend 
wholly to fasting and prayer, and the dressing of 
his soul by confession, meditation, and attendances 
upon God; that he may make up his accounts, re- 
new his vows, make amends for his carelessness, and 

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retire back again, from the place to which levity 
and the vanities of the world, or the opportunity 
of temptations, or the distraction of secular affairs 
have carried him. 

June 18. The Bible lays down the doctrine that 
the reward given will be in proportion to the work 
done. Those who have been successful in winning 
souls will have a glorious recompense in the daz- 
zling crown which shall deek their brow. For every 
soul they win for God a gem brighter and more 
valuable than a thousand worlds shall adorn their 
crown. "They that be wise shall shine as the 
firmament and they that turn many to righteous- 
ness as the stars forever and ever." 

June 19. A busybody is a treacherous sup- 
planter and underminer of the peace of all families 
and societies; this being a maxim of an unfailing 
truth, that no one ever prys into another man's 
concerns but with design to do, or be able to do, him 
a mischief. "And that ye study to be quiet, and 
to do your own business, as we commanded you. ' ' 
(1 Thess. 4:11.) "But let none of you suffer as 
a murderer, or as an evil-doer, or as a busybody in 
other men's matters." (1 Pet. 4: 15.) 

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June 20. Nagging is a sin against yourself, your 
household, your husband, your wife, your servant, 
your friends. "Why not list it with other sins? 
That is where it belongs. No Christian can be 
guilty of it and be a true follower of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

June 21. Pride thrust Nebuchadnezzar out of 
men's society — Saul out of his Kingdom — Adam 
out of Paradise, and Lucifer out of Heaven. And 
it will shut out of Heaven many more who are 
now prominent in the church. ' ' Pride goeth before 
destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 
Better is it to be of a humble spirit with the lowly 
than to divide the spoil with the proud." (Prov. 
16:18.) 

June 22. Are you dying daily to sensible ob- 
jects, and living for eternity? Is the thought of 
death pleasing and comforting to you? Are your 
tastes and dispositions more heavenly than for- 
merly ? 

June 23. If the will of God is our will, and if 
He always has His way, then we always have our 
way also, and we reign in a perpetual Kingdom. 

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He who sides with God cannot fail to win in every 
encounter; and whether the result shall be joy or 
sorrow, failure or success, death or life, we may 
under all circumstances join in the Apostle's shout 
of victory, "Thanks be unto God, which always 
causeth us to triumph in Christ. ' ' 

June 24. Nothing else but seeing God in every- 
thing will make us loving and patient with those 
who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then 
only the instruments for accomplishing His tender 
and wise purpose toward us, and we shall even find 
ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the 
blessing they bring us. 

You know well enough how to excuse and palliate 
your own faults, but you are not willing to accept 
excuses for others. 

June 25. No one can retain the favor of God 
and disobey Him. Hence, if we would "walk in 
the light" we must walk in obedience. And to 
such as have retained the favor of God and are now 
walking in obedience, there comes the promise that 
"the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us 
from all sin." (1 Jno. 1:7.) 



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June 26. Lying lips are an abomination to the 
Lord. All men must acknowledge lying to be one 
of the most scandalous sins that can be committed 
between man and man — a crime of deep dye and an 
extensive nature, leading into innumerable sins — 
for lying is practiced to deceive, to injure, betray, 
rob, destroy and the like. Lying, in this sense, is 
the concealment of all other crimes — the sheep's 
clothing upon the wolf's back, the Pharisees' own 
prayer, the harlot's blush, the hypocrite's paint, 
the murderer's smile, the thief's cloak and Judas' 
kiss. In a word, it is the devil's distinguished 
characteristic. 

June 27. When you are forgotten or neglected, 
or purposely set at naught and you smile inwardly, 
glorying in the insult or oversight, because thereby 
counted worthy to suffer with Christ, — that is vic- 
tory. 

June 28. Religious company brings fire to our 
graces, to kindle them when they are freezing ; but 
irreligious company brings water to quench them 
when they are flaming. There is somebody that 
continues healthful in a pest house. It is a far 
greater wonder to see a saint maintain his purity 

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among sinners, than it is to behold a sinner becom- 
ing pure among saints. Christians are not always 
like fish, which retain their freshness in the salt 
sea ; or like the rose, which preserves its sweetness 
among the most noisome weeds; or like the fire 
which burns the hottest when the season is coldest. 

June 29. Meditation produces pious motions in 
the will, or effective part of our soul, such as the 
love of God and our neighbor ; the desire of heaven 
and eternal glory; zeal for the salvation of souls; 
imitation of the life of our Lord ; compassion, ad- 
miration, joy; fear of God's displeasure, of judg- 
ment, and of hell ; hatred of sin, and confidence in 
the goodness and mercy of God. 

June 30. The enemy makes use of sadness to 
tempt the good ; for as he tries to make the wicked 
rejoice in their sins, so he strives to make the good 
sad in their good works, and as he can only induce 
people to commit evil by making it appear agree- 
able so he can only divert them from good, by mak- 
ing it appear disagreeable. 



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JULY 

July 1. "Sing aloud unto God our strength: 
make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob." (Psl. 
81:1-3.) 

July 2. In the present mode of our being, we 
can have but a faint conception of that capacity for 
enjoyment which our immortalized nature will 
possess. If the change upon the mental is to equal 
that upon the bodily powers, and the glorified body 
of the Redeemer is the model after which the bodies 
of the saints are to be fashioned, how wonderful 
must be the capacity for enjoyment possessed by 
the saints in Glory! With a spiritual body, how 
keen and far-reaching must be the glance of the 
eye, how delicate and appreciative the faculty for 
hearing, how exquisite the powers of taste, how 
capacious the intellect restored from the curse of 
sin, how enlarged must be the capacity for deriv- 
ing happiness from all that can attract the eye or 
charm the ear, illume the mind or delight the fancy, 
kindle the imagination or enrapture the affections ! 

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July 3. The eagle teaches her young to fly by 
tearing up her nest, hurling them, in mid-air, where, 
thrown upon their own resources, they must either 
fly or fall. It is then they find the undeveloped 
power in their wings. It is then they discover the 
secret of a new life. But for this trial they would 
never learn to beat their way through the pathless 
firmament and ride upon the wings of the wind. 

July 4. He that would die holily and happily, 
must in this world love tears, humility and solitude. 
If you wish, as you should, to stand firm and to 
progress in your spiritual life, regard yourself as 
an exile and stranger upon earth. He that does 
not seek in everything simply and purely the glory 
of God, and the salvation of his own soul, will find 
nothing but trouble and disappointment. 

July 5. Remember that you are here to serve, 
not to rule ; to work not to waste your time and to 
gossip. Here, therefore, men are tried as gold in 
a furnace. Here no one can abide, unless he is 
ready to humble himself with all his heart for the 
love of God. 

July 6. There was that about the disciples that 

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been with Jesus, because of the calm, holy, meek 
aspect which they wore all through their ill usage, 
contradiction, imprisonment, insults and scourgings. 
They never manifested the least sign of anger or 
impatience ; neither did they utter an unkind word, 
but were as gentle as lambs and as harmless as 
doves, and yet as bold as lions and as resistless as 
angels. 

July 7. As the most dangerous winds may enter 
little openings, so the devil never enters more 
dangerously than by little, unobserved incidents, 
which seem to be nothing, yet insensibly open the 
heart to great temptation. It is good to renew our- 
selves from time to time, by closely examining the 
state of our souls, as if we had never done it before ; 
for nothing tends more to the full assurance of 
faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in 
humility, and the exercise of all good works. 

July 8. Sanctified people are only spiritual 
babes as far as knowledge goes. Many little im- 
proprieties of conduct, manner and habit, which 
must be corrected, remain. Too much has been 
expected of them. They have only purity, not 
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conduct. Their characters are not perfect, though 
their hearts be pure, but only in process of devel- 
opment. 

July 9. Joy is the secret sweetness of a pure 
conscience, of a loving heart, of the gladness that 
comes from perfect righteousness. There will be 
many and great rewards for God's true people, but 
the crown, the climax of all rewards will be those 
final words from the lips of our King, " Enter thou 
into the joy of thy Lord." 

July 10. As we see one coal kindle another, and 
wood to be apt matter to make a fire ; so those that 
are disposed to contention and brawling are apt to 
kindle strife. A young preacher was riding out with 
one of his deacons, when they encountered a hog 
lying across the road. The deacon advised the 
preacher to turn out for the hog ; but he persisted 
in keeping the road. At last the preacher was com- 
pelled to go around the hog, or be upset ; and thus 
effectually learned the lesson. — "Never contend 
with a hog." 

July 11. It is true, open sinners deserve open 

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private offences. While we seek to heal a wound 
in our brother's actions, we should be careful not 
to leave a scar upon his person. We give grains 
of allowance in all current coin. That is a choice 
friend, who conceals our faults from the view of 
others, and yet discovers them to our own. 

July 12. The presence of a multitude makes a 
man take up" an unjust defence, rather than lie 
down under a just shame. It is better to censure 
a man in private, than to spread his guilt by proc- 
lamation. How many do that in the market, which 
they should do in the closet ! 

July 13. We do not seem to apprehend either 
how much good or how much evil there is in con- 
versation, and I believe it may be affirmed that the 
greatest instructions and the greatest corruptions 
proceed from it. If some people were to give us 
their true history, they would tell us that they 
never had any religion since they had such ac- 
quaintance and others have been led into a sincere 
piety, only by conversing with pious people. For 
men *s common conversation and ordinary life teach 
much more effectually than anything they say or do 
at set times and occasions. 

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July 14. Increased light means wider range of 
experience, greater effectiveness in life's practical 
duties, and higher octaves of enjoyment. Better 
acquaintance with Jesus brings sweeter and better 
realized companionship. Past victories bring re- 
newed courage. Indeed all life's ongoing, when 
abiding in the order of God, is an ascending scale. 
1 ' It shines more and more unto the perfect day. ' ' 

July 15. Envy is an ill will to others because 
of their superiority in gifts, or goodness, or success, 
and the least spark of this feeling in the heart is the 
seed of hell. Reader if you have the least feeling 
of envy, flee to the cleansing blood. 

July 16. The crowning excellency in the bliss 
of heaven is, that it shall fear no termiimtion. On 
earth, how quickly the most attractive beauty fades, 
the sweetest pleasure dies, and the fondest hopes 
are withered ; but in heaven, the sun of peace, and 
joy, and love, and bliss, shall never set. Spring 
shall bloom with unfading beauty, love shall glow 
with increasing warmth, and the stream of bliss 
shall flow forever. 

July 17. Time is the great destroyer. "I saw 

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its high pinnacles in the distant plain. The streams 
beat about it, the God of nature hurled His thunder- 
bolts against it ; yet it stood as firm as adamant * 
* * I returned, and lo ! the temple was no more. 
Its high walls lay in scattered ruin ; moss and grass 
grew rankly there. 'Who is the destroyer ?' 
said I to my guardian angel. ' It is Time, ' said he. ' ' 

July 18. Patience does not chafe or murmur 
under pressure, and during seasons of affliction. 
Her mouth is lovely in silence. She rides not in 
the whirlwind and stormy tempest of passion. She 
is a silent sufferer and an unflinching burden- 
bearer. She never complains or makes any rude 
threats. Her secret of conquest is, to silently and 
gently endure all that comes her way. 

July 19. You must acquire the habit of living 
by the minute. Take care of the present moment. 
Trust God now; do God's will now-; do not offend 
God now. You are to act for the future ; but act 
by the minute. "Be careful for nothing; but in 
everything, by prayer and supplication, with 
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known 
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July 20. Live in the constant use of all the 
ordinary and instituted means of grace — public and 
private prayer, meditation, searching the scrip- 
tures, and the sacrament. "They that wait upon 
the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall 
mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall run, and 
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." 

July 21. One reason why some decided Chris- 
tians do not grow in grace, and have more power 
with God and man, is that they must always have 
their own way. They do not know how to give up 
in any matter in which they differ in opinion from 
their brethren. They are self-willed and conten- 
tious. They believe in submission to themselves. 

Neither can we say that a wholly sanctified per- 
son would be incapable of marriage, and of worldly 
business; if he were called thereto, he would be 
more capable than ever. 

July 22. Nature likes to have things fine and 
different from others and shun what is mean and 
coarse. But Grace delights in what is plain and 
humble, does not spurn what is rough, nor refuse 
to be clothed in rags. 

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to vanity, and to running about. But Grace draws 
the soul towards God, and to virtues, renounces 
creatures, shuns the world, hates the desires of the 
flesh, restrains wanderings about and blushes to 
appear in public. 

July 23. When there is left no place of be- 
lieving good of a person, then "Charity" comes in 
with its hope, and begins to make allowances and 
excuses, as far as a good conscience can permit, and 
hopes that the transgressor may reform and be re- 
stored to the good opinion of society. 

July 24. Since his expulsion from the realms 
of light, the Devil has hated with perfect hatred 
every symbol of Jehovah's presence and glory; he 
hates the light ; he is the prince of darkness ; he is 
the great extinguisher, putting out the light of 
truth and holiness as often as he can effect it. He 
thought to extinguish the " Light of the World" by 
nailing it to a tree, but, in so doing, he only broke 
the vase that contained it into pieces, causing it to 
shine forth with brilliancy, and to fill the whole 
earth with glory. 

July 25. He is not just that will not be just 
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does justice, when to do so is made infamous ; and 
he is a wise man who is delighted with an ill name 
well gotten. 

July 26. He that is indifferent whether he serve 
God in riches or in poverty, is rather a seeker of 
God than himself; and he that will throw away a 
good book because it is not curiously gilded, is more 
curious to please his eye than to inform his under- 
standing. 

July 27. It were well you should be thoroughly 
sensible of this — the heaven of heavens is love. 
There is nothing higher in religion ; there is, in ef- 
fect, nothing else; if you look for anything but 
more love, you are looking wide of the mark, you 
are getting out of the royal way. And when you 
are asking others, ' ' Have you received this or that 
blessing?" if you mean anything but more love, 
you mean wrong ; you are leading them out of the 
way, and putting them upon a false scent. Settle 
it then in your heart, that from the moment God 
has saved you from all sin, you are to aim at noth- 
ing more, but more of that love described in the 
thirteenth of the Corinthians. You can go no 
higher than this, till you are carried into Abraham's 
bosom. 

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July 28. A "lie" is any action done or word 
spoken, whether true or false in itself, which the 
doer or speaker wishes the observer or hearer to 
take in a contrary sense to that he knows to be true. 
It is, in a word, any action or speech with the in- 
tention to deceive, though both may be absolutely 
true and right in themselves. 

For any one to disguise their walk, appearance, 
handwriting or voice to avoid being detected, they 
are lying, because they are laboring to deceive the 
observer and leave them under a false impression 
from what is strictly true. Hence, they are "mak- 
ing a lie. * ' 

July 29. Every created thing has its bounds, but 
grace has none. In true Godliness there is no ex- 
cess. Those wells which are of God's digging can 
never be too full of water. He delights to see the 
trees of righteousness, laden with the fruits of 
righteousness. 

July 30. When you never care to refer to your- 
self in conversation or to record your own good 
works or to itch after commendation. When you 
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July 31. Often meditate upon the effects of 
pride on one side, and humility on the other, First, 
that pride is like a canker, and destroys the beauty 
of the fairest flowers, the most excellent gifts and 
graces; but humility crowns them all. Secondly, 
that pride is a great hindrance to the perceiving 
the things of God, and humility is an excellent 
preparative and instrument of spiritual wisdom. 

Drive away all flatterers from thy company, 
and at no hand endure them ; for he that endures 
himself so to be abused by another, is not only a 
fool for entertaining the mockery, but loves to 
have his own opinion of himself to be heightened 
and cherished. 

God is your strength to sustain you in all the 
conditions which He places you, and not allow you 
to grow weak. Your patience to bear all the dis- 
grace and all the crosses which come upon you, of 
whatever nature they may be; the perfection in 
which you are to always walk. Consequently there 
is no reason why you should fear or falter. 



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AUGUST 

August 1. "Bless the Lord, my soul: and all 
that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the 
Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 
"Who f orgiveth all thine iniquities ; "Who healeth all 
thy diseases ; Who redeemeth thy life from destruc- 
tion ; Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and 
tender mercies. (Psl. 103 : 1-4.) 

August 2. Do not be hasty in making rash vows ; 
for, after you make them, God may require you to 
keep them. The word says, "When thou vowest 
a vow unto God, defer not to pay it ; for he hath no 
pleasure in fools ; pay that which thou hast vowed." 
(Eccles. 5:4.) Again, " Better is it that thou 
shouldst not vow, than to vow and not pay." 

August 3. No degree of mortification and self- 
denial, no private prayer, no secret mournings, no 
instances of charity, no labors of love will ever be 
forgotten, but will be treasured up to our ever- 
lasting comfort and refreshment. 

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We should be careful to avoid the very appear- 
ance of anger, unkindness, or contempt. We should 
always speak mildly and only when necessary. 

August 4. You would perhaps devote yourself 
more fully to God, but for this or that little diffi- 
culty that lies in your way ; you are not in so con- 
venient a state for the full practice of piety as 
you could wish. But consider, that this is nonsense, 
because holiness consists in conquering difficulties. 
These things, therefore, which you would have re- 
moved are laid in your way, that you may make 
them so many stepping-stones to perfection and 
glory. 

August 5. Arguing on the scriptures, contend- 
ing over nonessentials and rebutting remarks made 
in testimony or in prayer are too often a means 
of spiritual dissipation among professed Christians. 
This is one of the easiest ways in the world to kill 
a meeting and grieve away the Holy Ghost. 

August 6. We glorify God most when we pre- 
vent what may offend Him. God alone can pre- 
pare crosses suitable to a soul that thirsts for a 
following of His suffering and a conformity to His 

death. 

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August 7. The orange is the most beautiful 
fruit tree in the world, and combines more excel- 
lent qualities than any other tree. In some fea- 
tures the cocoanut palm excels, and in others the 
olive, but the orange has all the qualities put to- 
gether. It is evergreen, with shining leaves, with 
very fragrant blossoms, and delicious fruit, smooth, 
fine-grained bark, fragrant leaves, very hard, endur- 
ing wood and will live, under favorable circum- 
stances, one or two hundred years : one tree has been 
known to bear fruit nearly three centuries. Now, 
put a large, full bearing orange tree in a forest of 
common trees, of the wood, and that is the compari- 
son between the matchless excellence of Christ and 
all other sons of God, including angels and men. 

August 8. Do you ever pray God to cleanse the 
thoughts of your heart, that you may perfectly 
love Him? If you neither desire what you ask, 
nor believe it attainable, pray you not as a fool 
prayeth ? 

August 9. Entire holiness is retained on exactly 
the same conditions that it is first received. " And 
the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by 
faith in the Son of God. " " But ye, beloved, build- 

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ing up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying 
in the Holy Ghost." 

August 10. Some people seem to expect that, 
after the soul has entered into its rest in Jesus, 
temptations will cease, and to think the promised 
deliverance is not only to be from yielding to 
temptation, but even also from being tempted. 
Consequently, when they find the Canaanites of 
temptation still in the land, they are utterly dis- 
couraged, and think they must have gone wrong 
in some way, and that this cannot be the true land 
after all. 

August 11. One of the most excellent character- 
istics of holiness is teachableness, and you must 
keep yourself in a teachable attitude if you expect 
to grow in grace, or to even retain the grace you 
already have. You do not know all there is to 
learn even after you are cleansed, and if you are 
sanctified, you were never as willing to listen as 
now. You can learn from the humblest saint or 
from a little child. 

August 12. Holiness does not save one from in- 
firmities. An infirmity is defined as "a physical, 

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mental or moral weakness or flaw" (Standard Die- 
tionary.) It is found in a man's natural involun- 
tary condition. In a holy person it is not sin, and 
is perfectly consistent with the highest degree of 
Christian perfection. 

August 13. A man may wear the Saviour's liv- 
ery, and yet be busied in Satan's drudgery. The 
skin of an apple may be fair when it is rotten at the 
core. Though all gold may glitter, yet all is not 
gold that glitters. The arrantest hypocrite may 
have the color of gold, but not the valine of gold, 

August 14. If you be sick of the will-nots, old 
age is in danger of dying of the shall-nots. It is 
hard to cast off the devil's yoke, when we have 
worn it long upon our necks. "Can a man be born 
again when he is old?" Grace seldom grafts upon 
such withered stocks. An old sinner is nearer the 
second death, than he is to the second birth. It is 
more likely to see him taken out of the flesh, than 
the flesh taken out of him. 

August 15. We ought to be in church as the 
saints are in heaven, and in the house as the holiest 
men are in the church ; doing our work in the house 

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as we pray in the church, worshiping God from 
the ground of the heart. One of the principal 
rules of religion is to lose no occasion of serving 
God. 

August 16. It is not well for too many workers 
to talk to the seeker at the same time, one telling him 
to "surrender,' ' and another telling him to " be- 
lieve,' ' while another exhorts him to " confess,' ' 
and still another exhorts him to "claim it." Such 
conduct has confused and discouraged many an 
honest soul. 

August 17. When your good is evil spoken of, 
when your wishes are crossed, your taste offended, 
your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, 
and you take it all in patient, loving silence ; that 
is victory. 

August 18. Do not go dragging around as if you 
were poor and had no friends. Go through the 
world with the tread of a conquerer. Suppose my 
father or mother wanted to give me a present, 
and I should not take it; it would grieve them* 
Our heavenly Father wants to give us everything 

we need. ' i Well, I know — , ' ' but hesitation grieves. 

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Hini ; instead say, ' ' All right, thank you, Father. ' ' 
Let us act as though we belonged to the King. To 
retain the experience of holiness, we must not fail 
to testify to it. Mr. Fletcher lost it five times 
through failing to testify to it. Confessing it does 
not exalt self, but humbles the soul and gives glory 
to God. 

August 19. Do everything in the name of the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and to the glory of God. The 
Saviour expects you to eat, drink, dress, spend your 
time, talent, and property, and transact your busi- 
ness, with reference to the same objects for which 
you pray, read your Bible, and worship God. 
"Whether, therefore, ye eat, or drink, or whatso- 
ever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 

August 20. Avoid sinful lightness or levity on 
the one hand, and moroseness on the other. Be 
cheerful, but not frivolous and vain ; sorrowful, but 
not sour or gloomy. Maintain the dignity, the pu- 
rity, and the sanctity of the Christian character. 
"Be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith and 
charity." 



August 21. Cultivate the deepest humility and 

reverence in your approaches and addresses to God. 

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Never allow yourself to use light or irreverent ex- 
pressions of God, or of His great work, however 
joyful or ecstatic you may be. You are a temple 
of the Holy Ghost. "Therefore be careful, and 
walk softly before God." "I am the Almighty 
God ; walk before me, and be thou perfect. ' 9 

August 22. Study the Bible. Be a Bible Chris- 
tian in theory, in experience, and in practice. 
Make your honesty, justice, veracity, and self-de- 
nial harmonize with the teaching of the Bible. 
Avoid seeking or encouraging others to seek any 
mystical experience not explicitly taught in the 
Bible. Be satisfied with increasing love, power and 
communion with God, and avoid all mystical and 
unscriptural isms, which have wrought disastrously 
against the doctrine of holiness. 

August 23. Redeem your time. Imitate the ex- 
ample of Christ: rise early in the morning, and 
while others are slumbering pray, "search the 
Scriptures," and commune with God. Make every 
day and hour tell upon your best interest and the 
cause of God; "Redeeming the time, because the 
days are evil." 



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August 24. Acquire the habit of constant 
watchfulness against sin. The tempter is vigilant 
and insidious, ever on the alert, and full of artifice. 
In an unguarded moment you may lose what has 
cost you years of toil, and what you may never be 
able to regain. "Therefore let us not sleep as do 
others; but let us watch and be sober.' ' 

August 25. You must absolutely refuse to com- 
ply with temptation, under any circumstances, or 
to any degree. In the strength of God you must 
say "No" to the tempter every time. In the 
fiercest temptation, a resolute "No," and a single 
look to Christ, will overcome the wicked one. Be 
careful and distinguish between temptation and 
sin. 

1. A sinful impression, or suggestion, resisted 
until it disappears, is temptation, and only tempta- 
tion — not sin. 

2. A sinful suggestion, courted or tolerated, or 
at length complied with is sin. "Resist the devil, 
and he will flee from you." 

August 26. Endeavor to preserve a perfect con- 
sistency between your profession and your practice. 
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which you must meet and vindicate by your life 
and the "Fruit of the Spirit." Be exemplary in 
all things, especially in small matters, and "abstain 
from all appearances of evil/' Mr. Wesley says, 
"He that neglects little things, shall fall little by 
little." 

August 27. Be careful how you consider im- 
pulses and impressions as the teachings of the 
Spirit. We are to be "led by the Spirit," but it 
is principally by its illuminations. The man who 
is led by the Spirit is filled, not with impulses and 
impressions, but with light. Never allow any im- 
pulse to lead you to any course not in perfect har- 
mony with the Bible, enlightened reason, and the 
providence of God. 

August 28. Read the best writers on Christian 
holiness. We mention Messrs. Wesley, Fletcher, 
and Clark; Bishops Peck and Foster; Drs. Steele, 
Peck, McDonald, Mahan, Boardman and Finney. 
But the Bible should be first, last and always. 
" Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doc- 
trine." 

August 29. Do not let the adversary lead you 
to dwell upon some one subject, to the exclusion of 

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others, such as faith, dress, pride, worldliness, ma- 
sonry, etc. Aim at symmetry of character, and 
give each item its proper attention. Make no hobby 
of any single item in particular, but of a symmetri- 
cal holiness in general. The Bible has no hobby 
but "holiness without which no man shall see the 
Lord." (Heb. 12:14.) 

August 30. Be careful and not underestimate 
or disparage justification and regeneration. This 
is unwittingly done sometimes, in speaking of sanc- 
tification, and is fruitful of injurious results. It is 
a great and glorious thing to become a Child of God, 
and an heir of eternal life. Pardon, adoption, and 
regeneration constitute the principal items of per- 
sonal salvation ; they are inseparable from, and in- 
dispensable to entire sanctification. In speaking 
of perfect love we should never minify the great 
foundation upon which the whole Christian char- 
acter and life rest. 

August 31. In the confession of holiness, avoid 
all ostentation, display, and affection. Let your 
testimony be artless, simple, easy ; let it exalt Christ, 
and humble you. Cultivate a sense of unworthi- 
ness, and let every thought, and look, and word, 

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partake of the spirit of lowliness. "Let your 
speech be always of grace seasoned with salt, that 
ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. ' ' 

O, Lord, I know not what I should ask of thee. 
Thou only knowest what I want; and thou lovest 
me, if I am Thy friend, better than I love myself. 
O, Lord, give me, thy child, what is proper, whatso- 
ever it may be. I dare not ask either crosses or 
comforts. I only present myself before thee. I 
open my heart to thee. Behold my wants, which 
I am ignorant of; but do thou behold, and do ac- 
cording to thy mercy. Smite or heal! Depress 
me, or raise me up! I adore all thy purposes, 
without knowing them. I am silent. I offer my- 
self in sacrifice. 

Now, mistakes, and whatsoever infirmities neces- 
sarily flow from the corruptible state of the body, 
are no way contrary to love; nor, therefore, in the 
Scripture sense, sin. 



SEPTEMBER 

September 1. "Praise ye the Lord. 0, give 
thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His 
mercy endureth forever. "Who can utter the mighty 
acts of the Lord? Who can shew forth all His 
praise ? Blessed are they that keep judgment, and 
he that doeth righteousness at all times." (Psl. 
106:1-3.) 

September 2. Do not seek to be conspicuous. 
Seek no prominence because of your learning, tal- 
ents, piety, person, or possessions. Avoid all dis- 
play ; keep a single eye. Tour great business is to 
glorify God. Let your dress administer to your 
comfort, convenience, decency and modesty. "Be 
clothed with humility, for God resisteth the proud, 
and giveth grace to the humble." 

September 3. Do not (through a desire to avoid 
being conspicuous) neglect to "stand up for Jesus." 
Wesley says: "Tour holiness will make you as 
conspicuous as the sun in the midst of heaven." 

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While on the other hand do not think you can 
avoid it "Ye are the light of the World" A 
holy, active, zealous lover of God and man will be 
seen of men. Stand up for God ; speak, pray, and 
live to please Him. "Let us go forth, therefore, 
unto him without the camp, bearing His reproach." 

September 4. Avoid all evil speaking. Never 
talk about the faults of an absent person. We are 
encompassed by this sin on every side, and are in 
great danger of being carried away by the torrent. 
Watch over your lips, and "Speak not evil one of 
another, brethren." 

September 5. Do not allow yourself to talk 
much about the opposition you meet with from 
ministers and Christians. Never pray for yourself 
or others as if you or they were persecuted, es- 
pecially not in public. Do not suffer your mind to 
dwell upon the opposition you meet with, lest you 
should be "overcome of evil." Whatsoever things 
are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever 
things are just, whatsoever things are pure, what- 
soever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of 
good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be 

any praise, think on these things. 

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September 6. Avoid a censorious, fault-finding 
spirit. This will sour and ruin your soul. You 
(may grieve, but never fret. You may sorrow over 
the conditions of things, but do not scold. While 
you must be plain, truthful, and searching, yet be 
kind, patient, and forbearing. "Warn them that 
are unruly; comfort the feeble-minded; support 
the weak; be patient toward all men/' 

September 7. Be careful to treat with the utmost 
kindness those that have not obtained this rich 
experience. Do not fall out with them on account 
of their dullness to learn or their slowness to be- 
lieve, and unwillingness to seek holiness. Avoid 
all tartness of expression, and all undue severity, 
even though they should contradict and cavil. B. 
T. Roberts well says, "A bold, positive, dogmatic 
manner does not at all become the follower of Him 
who was meek and lowly of heart.' ' 

September 8. Avoid controversy. Few persons 
can engage in it without sooner or later getting 
into a bad spirit. Avoid becoming excited and 
getting into a scolding and vociferous manner of 
speaking. "The servant of the Lord must not 
strive, but be gentle unto all men." 

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September 9. Make your whole spirit and life 
a practical exemplification of personal holiness. It 
is said that after Benjamin Franklin failed, by all 
his philosophical arguments, to convince the farm- 
ers of his day that plaster enriched the soil, he 
took some plaster and formed it into a sentence by 
the road-side. The wheat grew up through those 
letters about twice as rank and green as the other 
wheat, and the farmers could read for months, in 
living green, "This has been plastered." 

September 10. "Love suffereth long, and is 
kind." Suffers all the weaknesses of the children 
of God, all the weaknesses of the children of the 
world and that not for a little time only but as long 
as God pleases. Some can suffer long, but are not 
always kind. This love will at once inspire you 
with the most amiable sweetness and the most fer- 
vent and tender affection toward the one that know- 
ingly injures you, and amid it all, you will feel and 
manifest a mild, tender, long-suffering spirit in 
every look, action and tone of voice. 

September 11. Love "envieth. not." Do you 
ever feel a secret spirit of envy or prejudice shut 
up in your heart. A jealous feeling when another 

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becomes noticed and appreciated more than you? 
An unpleasant sensation in view of the great pros- 
perity and success of another, especially your in- 
feriors or those with whom you disagree? Do you 
ever find yourself dwelling upon such a one's faults 
and failings, rather than his gifts and virtues ? 

September 12. Love "vaunteth not itself. ' ' 
Acteth not rashly in a violent headstrong manner, 
nor passes any rash or severe judgment on the most 
guilty person. Its possessor is not harsh or press- 
ing in his manner. When contradicted or pressed 
beyond reason or put in a wrong light, he bears it 
with meekness rather than use many words to ex- 
cuse, evade, or clear himself. 

September 13. Love "is not puffed up." Do 
you ever feel exalted and important because of your 
abilities, success or position? A desire at times to 
have others notice, sympathize or speak well of you ; 
on the other hand, do you feel hurt when set aside 
and unnoticed? Do you love to speak of your 
special free times in preaching, exhorting or pray- 
ing and thus draw attention to self? Do you feel 
humbled or lifted up when praised and preferred 
above others? 

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September 14. Love "doth not behave itself un- 
seemly. " If you have this love, you are careful 
to avoid all such behavior that you think might 
grieve, offend, or be a source of temptation to an- 
other. Your reproving the forward and those who 
are a trial to you will not be prompted or tinged 
with a desire to take revenge or make them feel 
little and ashamed. 

September 15, Love "seeketh not her own." 
This love will do away with selfishness of all kinds. 
In eating, sleeping, riding, etc., whether at home or 
abroad, its possessor continually practices self-de- 
nial, doing to others as he would be done by. He 
seeks to promote the interest and happiness of 
others as sincerely as his own, and often at the ex- 
pense of his own, though it may not be appreciated 
or returned. 

September 16. Love ' i is not provoked. ' ' When 
under a pressure or in a hurry do you ever feel 
anger and impatience stir at the ignorance, slowness 
or stubbornness of others? Do not excuse it as 
nervousness, temptation or holy indignation. Are 
you touchy and sensitive, especially when some- 
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church, relatives, or nationality ? Do you not feel a 
distant, independent feeling at times toward those 
who ignore and set aside your ideas; treat with 
contempt your plans and convictions? 

September 17. Love "thinketh no evil." This 
will do away with all uncharitable suspicions. Do 
you ever find yourself surmising or mistrusting that 
another has done wrong or is guilty of some charge 
which you do not positively know to be true? 

September 18. Love ' c rejoiceth not in iniquity. ' f 
If you possess this love you never have a feeling of 
satisfaction in detecting, hearing or speaking, 
(though in a truthful and warning manner) of the 
failings and inconsistencies of others. You do not 
only weep over the sins and follies of an enemy, 
take no pleasure in repeating or hearing his faults 
spoken of, but you desire that they should be for- 
gotten forever. 

September 19. '"Rejoiceth in the truth.'- Is 
not sectarian or bigoted, but rejoices just as much 
over the salvation of souls in the midst of others as 
if it were in our own rank. Rejoices to find that 
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opinions, or some points of practice are (in some 
cases) lovers of God, and in other respects, unre- 
provable ; glad to hear good of them and to speak 
all you can consistently with truth and justice. 

September 20. "Beareth all things.' ' Covers 
a multitude of sins, mistakes, imperfections and 
weaknesses of another; speaks evil of no man. 
"Believeth all things.' ' Always willing to think 
the best, to put the most favorable construction on 
everything; ever ready to believe whatever may 
tend to the advantage of another's character. 

September 21. "Hopeth all things." One be- 
ing informed of the sins, faults or failures of an- 
other, perfect love hopeth it is not so bad after all. 
"Endureth all things." Endures with unwearied 
patience anything that God can permit, or men and 
devils inflict. 

September 22. It has been said of "Holiness," 
"It breathes in the prophecy, — thunders in the 
law, — murmurs in the narrative, — whispers in the 
promises, — supplicates in the prayers, — sparkles in 
the poetry, — resounds in the songs, — speaks in the 

types, — glows in the imagery, — -voices in the lan- 

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guage, — and burns in the spirit, of its whole scheme 
from its alpha to omega, from its beginning to end. 
Holiness! Holiness needed! holiness required! 
holiness offered! holiness attainable! holiness a 
present duty, a present privilege, — a present enjoy- 
ment, — is the progress and completeness of its won- 
drous theme!" 

September 23. A wholly sanctified person may 
be tempted by Satan, by men, and by his own bodily 
appetites to commit sin, but his heart is free from 
these inward fires, which, before his full sanctifi- 
cation, were ready to fall in with temptation and 
lead him into transgression. 

September 24. In conversion, sin does not reign, 
in sanctification, it does not exist. Conversion is 
salvation from the voluntary commission of sin : 
sanctification is salvation from the inbred sin. 
Conversion is sanctification begun ; entire sanctifi- 
cation is the work completed. 

September 25. The life of holiness is emphat- 
ically a life of faith; unbelief intermeddleth not 
therewith. In storm and sunshine the perfect 
Christian is the same. His faith may be tried, and 

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he may be sorely tempted, but God "giveth more 
grace." 

September 26. Afflictions may come, — we may 
need them. While there is a tempter, we shall be 
tempted: but the "Lion of the tribe of Judah" is 
the Captain of our salvation. Our path to heaven 
does not lie all the way through Beulah. It is 
"through much tribulation that we enter the King- 
dom.' ' We have our Elims of fruit and shade, to 
be sure; but we have also our Marahs of bitter 
waters. We are often refreshed with the rich 
clusters of Eschol, but we are soon called to pass 
through the streamless valley of Baca. In it all, 
however, the holy soul, walking by faith, sees the 
hand of its almighty Victor extended towards his 
bleeding followers; and a voice is heard; — sweet 
and faith-inspiring, — "I have overcome the world.' ' 

September 27. "The Lord has taught me," says 
Lady Maxwell, "that it is by faith, and not joy that 
I must live. He has, in a measure, often enabled 
me strongly to act faith in Jesus for salification, 
even in the absence of all comfort, This brought 
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September 28. Fenelon says: " Naked faith, 
alone, is a sure guard against illusion. When our 
foundation is not upon any imagination, feeling, 
pleasure or extraordinary illumination when we 
rest upon God only in pure and naked faith, in the 
simplicity of the gospel, receiving the consolations 
which He sends, but dwelling in none; following 
the light of the faith of the present moment ; then 
we are indeed in a way that is but little subject to 
illusion." 

September 29. They that are full of faith, ask 
all things with confidence and receive from the 
Lord, because they ask without doubting. But he 
that doubts, shall hardly live unto God except to 
repent. Wherefore, purify thy heart from doubt- 
ing, and put on faith, and trust in God, and thou 
shalt receive all that thou shalt ask. Consider, 
therefore, this doubting, how cruel and pernicious 
it is, and how it utterly roots out from the faith 
those who were very faithful and firm. 

September 30. Put on a firm and powerful 
faith; for faith promises all things, and perfects 
all things. But doubting will not believe that it 
should obtain anything, by all that it can do. 

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OCTOBER 

October 1. "Praise ye the Lord. I will praise 
the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of 
the upright, and in the congregation. The works 
of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that 
have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and 
glorious ; and His righteousness endureth forever. ' ■ 
(Psl. 111:1-3.) 

October 2. In entering upon the high life, the 
soul must learn to love holiness for its own intrin- 
sic excellence, and not merely as a means of excit- 
ing in us blissful ecstasies. The first feature of the 
wilderness state is a cessation of all the pleasurable 
emotions of the soul. The heart sometimes ex- 
periences a state not easy to describe. There is no 
emotion of any kind, no active desire, no joy, no 
conscious peace, no misery, no guilt. There is a 
suspension of the soul's sensibilities. It is as a 
state of inward emptiness. The soul is like the 
clear blue vault of heaven on a winter day, when 

no cloud is seen, and no winds are abroad. 

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October 3. This inward stillness is often at- 
tended with a restless and painful longing, and 
with an apprehension that God had abandoned us ; 
the soul, in its blindness, having taken the gifts of 
God for Himself. 

October 4. If we set ourselves to enjoy the high- 
est results of Christian experience, and to be wholly 
the Lord's, the question must soon be settled, 
whether we love God as a means of happiness, or 
for His own sake. If we can be satisfied with noth- 
ing but the intoxication of emotion, we give Him an 
altogether secondary place in our affections; we 
make Him only a means of our enjoyment, instead 
of sacrificing ourselves to Him. Such a soul has 
not fully lost itself in God. 

October 5. We should aim to realize what was 
called by Archbishop Fenelon a state of pure love 
— a disinterested love, a love of order, of absolute 
beauty and perfection, superior to every agreeable 
sensation, and which can act in the absence of all 
sensible pleasure and consolations of grace. The 
soul, at such a time, may have no feeling, no happy 
emotion, on which its faith may lean. Yet it still 
holds to God, and loves Him for His own sake 
above all His gifts. 

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October 6. The love that exists in such a state 
of naked faith is the purest form, of Christian love. 
It has less of self in it. The finite recedes, and the 
infinite fills the affections. It is as pure as the 
breeze that fans an angel's brow. 

October 7. We are told that there are depths 
of the ocean where the plummet sinks below all the 
currents and disturbances of the surface, and where 
eternal stillness reigns. So of a soul in this state 
of naked faith and pure love. It is an angelic flame, 
still and silent as the unfathomed depths of the 
sea. A state of naked faith, or what some writers 
on inward experience denominate the wilderness 
state, is a most beneficial mental condition, if the 
spirit does not falter, and if the will holds the soul, 
emptied of all desires and emotions in the presence 
of God. 

October 8. If the enemy insultingly asks, 
" Where now is thy God?" stand like Christ before 
the bar of Pilate, in triumphant silence : or, if you 
speak, let praise flow from your lips like melody 
from the string. 

October 9. Alas, how many stumble and fall 
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ert, to wean them from themselves, and the world, 
and purge from the soul all its sensuous and earthly 
images ! This is the crisis in the experience of the 
hidden life. It is a Spiritual Rubicon. If we cross 
it, victory and empire await us in the future. 

October 10. We shall have our trials of faith, 
and our temptations. The Lord sends the trials to 
crucify the flesh, as in the case of Paul's thorn; 
Satan sends the temptations to ruin us as in the 
case of Judas' betrayal, Peter's denial, and Ana- 
nias' and Sapphira's falsehood. We should not 
be anxious about the removal of the trial, but the 
temptation should be repelled at once. Trials 
make our way to heaven more sure, while the 
temptation makes it more dangerous. One is the 
product of the Father's love, the other of a devil's 
hate. 

October 11. Let us urge yon, dear reader, to 
sound the depths of your heart, and see if the true 
marks of piety are there. It is a matter involving 
too much of interest to be passed over without care- 
ful attention. 

October 12. Do you feel more and more that 
you and Christ are one, never to be separated? "0, 

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union of unity,' ' exclaimed Madame Guyon, "de- 
manded of God by Jesus Christ for man, and 
merited by Him ! After the consummation of this 
divine unity, the soul remains with Christ in God." 

October 13. Watch and pray continually against 
pride. If God has cast it out, see that it enter no 
more ; it is full as dangerous as desire, and you may 
slide back into it unaware, especially if you think 
there is no danger of it. "Nay, but I ascribe all 
I have to God." So you may, and be proud never- 
theless. For it is pride, not only to ascribe any- 
thing we have to ourselves, but to think we have 
what we really have not. 

October 14. Beware of the daughter of pride, 
enthusiasm ! 0, keep at the utmost distance from 
it ; give no place to a heated imagination. Do not 
hastily ascribe dreams, voices, impressions, visions 
or revelations to be from God. They may be from 
Him ; they may be from Nature ; they may be from 
the devil. Therefore, "believe not every spirit, 
but try the spirits, whether they be of God." 

October 15. Beware of Antinomianism, making 
void the law or any part of it, through faith, En- 

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thusiasm naturally leads us to this; indeed, they 
can scarcely be separated. This may steal upon 
you in a thousand forms, so that you cannot be 
too watchful against it. Take heed of everything, 
whether in principle or practice, which has any 
tendency thereto. 

October 16. Beware of sins of omission ; lose no 
opportunity of doing good in any kind. Be zealous 
of good works. Willingly omit no work, either of 
piety or mercy. Do all the good you possibly can, 
to the bodies and souls of men ; particularly ' ' thou 
shalt in any wise reprove thy neighbor and not 
suffer sin upon him." Be active. Give no place 
to indolence or sloth ; give no occasion to say, " You 
are idle, you are idle." * * * Be always em- 
ployed, lose no shred of time, gather up the frag- 
ments, that nothing be lost. 

October 17. Beware of desiring anything but 
God. Now you desire nothing else. Every other 
desire is driven out; see that none enter again. 
Keep thyself pure, let your eye remain single. 
Admit no desire of pleasing food, or any other 
pleasure of sense; no desire of pleasing the eye or 
the imagination by anything grand, or new, or 

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beautiful; no desire for money or praise. 0, 
11 stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath 
made you free!" 

October 18. Beware of schism! Of making a 
rent in the Church of Christ. That inward dis- 
union, the members ceasing to have reciprocal love 
one for another. Beware of a dividing spirit. iBe- 
Ware of everything tending thereto. 

October 19. Be exemplary in all things; par- 
ticularly in outward things (as in dress,) in little 
things, in the laying out of your money (avoiding 
every needless expense,) in deep steady seriousness, 
and in the solidity and usefulness of your conversa- 
tion. So shall you be "lights shining in a dark 
place ;" so shall you daily grow in graee, till "an 
entrance be ministered unto you abundantly into 
the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ." 

October 20. God hardly gives His Spirit even 
to those whom He has established in grace, if they 
do not pray for it on all occasions, not only once 
but many times. 

October 21. God does nothing but in answer to 
prayer ; and even they who have been converted to 

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God without praying for it themselves — which is 
exceeding rare — were not without the prayers of 
others. Every new victory which a soul gains is 
the effect of a new prayer. Be not over alarmed 
that Satan sows tares among the wheat of Christ. 
It ever has been so, especially on any remarkable 
outpouring of the Spirit. 

October 22. On every occasion of uneasiness we 
should retire to prayer, that we may give place to 
the grace and light of God, and then form our 
resolutions, without being in any pain about what 
success they may have. In the greatest tempta- 
tions, a single look to Christ, and the barely pro- 
nouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked 
one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of 
spirit. 

October 23. God's command to "pray without 
ceasing,' ' is founded on the necessity we have of 
His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, 
which can no more subsist one moment without it, 
than the body can without air. Whether we think 
of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for 
Him, all is prayer, when we have no other object 
than His love and the desire of pleasing Him. 

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October 24. All that a Christian does, even in 
eating and sleeping, is prayer when it is done in 
simplicity, according to the order of God without 
either adding to or diminishing from it by his own 
choice. It is great wisdom not to be hasty in ac- 
tion, nor to believe everything you hear. 

October 25. Prayer continues in the desire of 
the heart, though the understanding be employed 
on outward things. As the furious hate which the 
devil bears is termed the roaring of a lion, so our 
vehement love may be termed crying after God. 

October 26. God only requires of His adult 
children that their hearts be truly purified, and 
that they offer Him continually the wishes and 
vows that naturally spring from perfect love, and 
are the most perfect prayers that can spring 
from it. 

October 27. It is scarce conceivable how straight 
the way is wherein God leads them that follow Him. 
And how dependent on Him we must be, unless we 
are wanting in our faithfulness to Him. It is 
hardly credible of how great consequence before 
God the smallest things are ; and what great incon- 

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venience some times follow those which appear 
to be light faults. Whosoever is sanctified wholly 
has the baptism with the Holy Ghost; whosoever 
has the baptism with the Holy Ghost is sanctified 
wholly. These terms simply represent different 
phases of the same experience, and are used as 
synonyms. 

October 28. We should be continually laboring 
to cut off all the useless things that surround us; 
and God usually retrenches the superfluities of our 
souls in the same proportion as we do those of our 
bodies. We scarce conceive how easy it is to rob 
God of His due, in our friendship with the most 
virtuous person, till they are torn from us by death. 
But if this loss produce lasting sorrow, that is a 
clear proof that we had before two treasures, be- 
tween which we divided our heart. 

October 29. If, after having renounced all, we 
do not watch incessantly, and beseech God to accom- 
pany our vigilance with His, we shall be again en- 
tangled and overcome. When a man begins to grow 
cold, then he makes much of a little labor, and seeks 
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October 30. God frequently conceals the part 
which His children have in the conversion of other 
souls. Yet one may boldly say, that person who 
long groans before Him for the conversion of an- 
other, whenever that soul is converted to God, is 
one of the chief causes of it. 

October 31. Charity cannot be practiced right, 
unless, first, we exercise it the moment God gives 
the occasion; and, secondly, retire the instance 
after to offer it to God by humble thanksgiving. 
And this for three reasons: first, to render Him 
what we have received from Him. Second, to avoid 
the dangerous temptation which springs from the 
very goodness of these works. And the third, to 
unite ourselves to God, in whom the soul expands 
itself in prayer, with all the graces we have re- 
ceived, and the good works we have done, to draw 
from Him new strength against the bad effects 
which these very works may produce in us if we do 
not make use of the antidotes which God has or- 
dained against these poisons. 

Failing to distinguish between evil thoughts and 
thoughts of evil has brought many souls into bond- 
age. Jesus said "From within, out of the heart of 

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man." Evil thoughts spring from an impure 
heart. Thoughts of evil are suggested from with- 
out, and are always repugnant and offensive. We 
cannot help but think about the evil we see or hear 
any more than we can help the eolor of our hair. 

When you are contented with any food, any 
raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, 
any interruption by the will of God, — that is vie- 
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NOVEMBER 

November 1. "I will bless the Lord at all times : 
His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My 
soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble 
shall hear thereof and be glad. magnify the 
Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. ' ' 

November 2. "Let your communication be Yea, 
yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these 
cometh of evil." (Matt. 5 : 37.) 

Reader, would you speak idle and uncalled for 
words if you saw an angel walking by your side, 
writing down every word you said? Well, God 
has a record of every word you have spoken since 
the day you came into the world. There is a per- 
fect copy of all your words, actions and thoughts 
recorded in heaven daily. 

i 

November 3. Keep the old proverb, "Think 
twice before you speak once." Again, be serious; 
be a man or woman of "few words," for "in the 
multitude of words there wanteth not sin." 0! 

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how the Spirit is grieved in these days, even among 
religions people, through light and trifling talk! 
Keep this thought in view, reader, "By thy words 
thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt 
be condemned." (Matt. 12:37.) the fullness 
and the fewness of the words of Jesus ! 

November 4. The unmixed simplicity of char- 
acter was, in the case of Thomas a Kempis, chiefly 
dependent upon his complete and entire abstraction 
from many things which create discord in the 
minds of other men. The world did not bewilder 
him ; art and nature with their glories and charms 
tempted him not away from his inward musings; 
science suggested to him no riddles and doubts, 
occasioned him no conflicts and pains. He kept 
aloof from them, as the bent of his mind was ex- 
clusively heavenward. 

November 5. The likeness of Kempis was en- 
graved on a plate of copper that lies over his body. 
In this engraving is represented a person respect- 
fully presenting to him a label on which is written 
a verse to this effect: "0 where is Peace, for thou 
its path hast trod?" To which Kempis returns 
another label, inscribed as follows: "In poverty, 

Retirement, and with God." 

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November 6. Why do you pine away with vain 
grief? Why do you weary yourself with needless 
care? Rest in My good will, and you shall suffer 
no harm. For nothing is lasting under the sun, for 
all things are vanity and vexation of spirit. 

November 7. Grant me prudently to avoid the 
one who flatters me, and patiently to bear with the 
one who contradicts me; for it is a mark of great 
wisdom not to be moved by every wind of words, 
not to give ear to the wicked flattery of the siren ; 
for thus we shall go on securely in the course we 
have begun. 

November 8. My son, patience and humility in 
adversity are more pleasing to Me than much con- 
solation and devotion in prosperity. 

Why are you so grieved at every little thing 

which is said against you? If it had been much 

greater, you ought not to have been troubled at it. 

But now dismiss it from your thoughts ; it is not the 

first trial, nor anything new ; neither will it be the 

last, if you continue to live. You are brave enough, 

when nothing goes against you ; you can give good 

advice and know how to strengthen others by your 

words, but when tribulation is at your door, you 

yourself fail. 

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November 9. It is better to have little than 
much, for of much you may be proud. The loving 
God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, 
and having every wrong temper cleansed out of the 
soul, and being filled with the Holy Ghost, is what 
we mean by being "Wholly sanctified.' ' 

November 10. A man's worth is not to be esti- 
mated by the number of visions and consolations 
which may be granted to him, nor by his knowledge 
of the Scriptures, nor by his high rank; but his 
moral greatness is to be ascertained by the depth 
of his humility, and the abundance of divine char- 
ity which he possesses, by the pure and single 
intention to the glory of God which is at the root 
of his actions, by his knowledge of his own noth- 
ingness, by a sincere contempt of himself, and 
by his joy being greater when he is despised by 
others and set aside than when he is honored. 

November 11. Therefore you must not ascribe 
anything good to yourself, not attribute anything 
that is good in any man to himself, but refer all to 
God, without Whom man has nothing. 

November 12. Let nothing appear great, nothing 
precious and wonderful, nothing worthy of esteem, 

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nothing high, nothing truly to be praised or de- 
sired, hut that which is eternal. 

Let eternal Truth please you above all things, 
and your own exceeding vileness above all things 
displease you. 

November 13. Oh, if souls had courage enough 
to resign themselves to the work of purification, 
without having any weak and foolish pity on them- 
selves, what a noble, rapid and happy progress 
would they make! If they advance some steps, 
as soon as the sea is riffled, they are dejected ; they 
cast anchor, and often desist from the prosecution 
of the voyage. Such disorders doth selfish interest 
and self-love occasion. It is of consequence not to 
look too much at one's own state, not to lose cour- 
age, not to afford any nourishment to self-love, 
which is so deeply rooted, that its empire is not 
easily demolished. 

November 14. Though war should rise against 
me, in Him will I confide. For then, though as- 
saulted on every side, I continue fixed as a rock. 
Having no will but for what God sees meet to 
order, be it what it may, high or low, great or 
small, sweet or bitter, honor, wealth, life, or any 

other object, what can shape my peace ? 

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November 15. When you can lovingly and pa- 
tiently bear with any disorder, any irregularity; 
any unpunctuality or any annoyance — that is vic- 
tory. 

November 16. What, then, renders this soul so 
perfectly content? It neither knows nor wants to 
know, anything but what God calls it to. Herein 
it enjoys divine content, after a manner vast, im- 
mense, and independent of exterior events; more 
satisfied in its humiliation, and in the opposition 
of all creatures, by the order of Providence, than 
on the throne of its own choice. 

November 17. Lord, whatsoever Thou shalt do 
with me, it can be nothing but good. 

If it be Thy will that I should be in darkness, be 
Thou blessed; and if it be Thy will that I should 
be in light, be Thou again blessed. 

If thou design to comfort me, be Thou blessed; 
and if Thou will that I should be in trouble, be 
Thou ever equally blessed. 

November 18. Without a conflict you cannot 
obtain the crown of patience. But if you desire to 
be crowned, strive manfully, bear patiently. With- 

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out toil you cannot arrive at rest, nor without a 
battle can you attain to victory. 

November 19. Faith is belief stepping out and 
acting what God says, without waiting, or wanting 
for any evidence but His word. Belief is like steam 
in a locomotive, but trust is to pull the throttle, and 
turn on the steam into action. 

We may believe a bank is safe, but trust is to 
risk its safety by depositing our money in it. 

November 20. Railroad iron, steam boilers, 
anchors and similar mechanical apparatus, are al- 
ways tested by established standards before being 
put to use. Likewise the Lord, by His own infal- 
lible tests, develops the sincerity or falseness of 
spiritual life. Job is a notable example in this di- 
rection. The result developed the sterling quality 
of the man's faith, and attested his worthiness to 
bear future prosperity. 

November 21. Joseph's test through Potiphar's 
wife was sharp and short, like the first strain given 
to an anchor cable. But it proved his ability to 
endure the steady tension of after trials. For 
eighty years, amid adulation and insidious idolatry, 
he maintained both purity and patience. 

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November 22. If you were to see anyone openly 
sin, or in the act of committing some crime, you 
ought not, therefore to think the better of yourself. 
We are all liable to fall, yet you should be con- 
vinced that there is no one more liable to do so 
than yourself. 

He that has but one aim, and refers all things 
to one Principle and views all things in one light, 
is able to abide steadfast, and to rest in God. 

November 23. Not everything which is high is 
holy; nor everything that is sweet, is good; nor 
every desire, pure ; nor everything we love, dear to 
God. 

I wish, for the grace, which will make me more 
humble, and give me holy fear, and a greater will- 
ingness to renounce myself. 

November 24. Blessed are the ears which catch 
the breathings of the Divine whisper, and pay no 
heed to the whispers of the world. 

Blessed indeed are the ears which listen not for 
the voice which sounds from without, but to the 
inner voice of truth. 

The mind may be deeply distressed and pressed 
down by heaviness, while the heart cleaves to God 

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by perfect love, and the will is wholly resigned to 
Him. 

November 25. If you desire me to come to you, 
and to sup with you, purge out the old leaven, and 
cleanse the habitation of your heart. 

Shut out all the world, and all tumult and light- 
ness; sit as a sparrow "alone upon the house-top," 
and reflect upon My mercy and infinite goodness, 
and also your ingratitude and unworthiness. 

November 26. The devil sleepeth not, neither is 
the flesh as yet dead; therefore cease not to pre- 
pare thyself to the battle, for on thy right hand 
and on thy left are enemies that never sleep. 

Prepare thyself to bear many adversities; for 
so it will be with thee, wheresoever thou be; and 
so surely thou wilt find it, wheresoever thou hidest 
thyself. 

November 27. No man ever perished who fol- 
lowed first the will of God, and then the will of his 
superiors; but thousands have been damned merely 
for following their own will, and choosing their 
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One may tremble, change color, or be otherwise 
disordered in body, while the soul is calmly staid 
on God and remains in perfect peace. 

November 28. God did not place you in the 
world for any need He had of you, who are alto- 
gether unprofitable to Him, but only to exercise 
His goodness in you, in giving you His grace and 
glory. And to that end He has given you under- 
standing to know Him, memory to be mindful of 
Him, will to love Him, imagination to represent 
to yourself His benefits, eyes to behold the wonders 
of His works, a tongue to praise Him ; and so of 
the other faculties. Being created, and put into 
the world for this end, all actions contrary to it 
are to be avoided and rejected. 

November 29. Consider that it is quite true that 
you are between heaven and hell ; and that the one 
and the other is open to receive you according to 
the choice which you shall make. Consider that the 
choice which you make of one or the other in this 
world, will last for all eternity in the next. 

November 30. Consider, that Jesus Christ be- 
holds you from heaven in His mercy, and gracious- 

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ly invites yon, saying, "Come, dear soul, to ever- 
lasting rest, within the arms of My goodness; I 
who have prepared immortal delights for you in 
the abundance of my love. ' \ "Will you come ? 



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December 1. "0 give thanks unto the Lord, for 
He is good: for His mercy endureth forever/ ' Let 
the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath 
redeemed from the hand of the enemy; and gath- 
ered them out of the lands, from the north and 
from the south, from the east and from the west. 
(Psl. 107:1-3.) 

December 2. John Fletcher: "I will confess 
Him to all the world; and I declare unto you, in 
the presence of God, the Holy Trinity, I am now 
' dead indeed unto sin.' I do not say, 'I am cruci- 
fied with Christ, ' because some of our well-mean- 
ing brethren say, 'By this can only be meant a 
gradual dying ; ' but I profess unto you, I am dead 
unto sin, and alive unto God. He is my Prophet, 
Priest, and King; my indwelling holiness; my all 
in all." 

December 3. Bishop Hamline: "All at once, I 
felt as though a hand not feeble, but omnipotent, 

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not of wrath, but of love, were laid on my brow. I 
felt it not only outwardly, but inwardly. It seemed 
to press upon my whole body, and to diffuse all 
through and through it a holy, sin-consuming 
energy. As it passed downward, my heart as well 
as my head was conscious of the presence of this 
soul cleansing energy, under the influence of which, 

I fell to the floor God's love swallowed 

me up." 

December 4. Dr. Thomas C. Upham: "I was 

distinctly conscious when I reached it I 

was then redeemed by a mighty power, and filled 
with the blessing of perfect love." . . . . "I was 
never able, before that time to say, with sincerity 
and confidence, that I loved my heavenly Father 
with all my strength. But, aided by divine grace, 
I have been enabled to use this language, which 
involves, as I understand it, the true idea of Chris- 
tian perfection or holiness, both then and ever 
since." 

December 5. Mrs. Thomas C. Upham: "But I 
have come to the Bible to receive and believe it 
all, and my eyes fastened on the promise of the 
Saviour, € Blessed are they that do hunger and 

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thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.' 
While pleading" this promise, kneeling before God 
with the words upon my lips, I felt a sweet assur- 
ance that my prayer was heard; a sensible peace 
entered into my soul." 

December 6. Joseph Benson: "My soul was, 
as it were, led into God, and satiated with His 
goodness. He so strengthened my faith as to per- 
fectly banish all my doubts and fears, and so filled 
me with humble, peaceful love, that I could and did 
devote my soul and body, and health and strength, 
to His glory. I am in possession of a new nature." 

December 7. James B. Taylor : "I am ready to 
testify to the world, that the Lord has blessed my 
soul beyond my highest expectations. People may 
call this blessing by what name they please, — 
1 Faith of 'assurance,' * holiness,' ' perfect love,' 
'sanctification.' It makes no difference with me 
whether they give it a name or no name ; it contains 
a blessed reality, and, thanks to tmy heavenly 
Father, it is my privilege to enjoy it ; it is yours 
also, and the privilege of all, to enjoy the same, 
and to go beyond anything that I have yet expe- 
rienced. ' ' 

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December 8. William Carvosso: "Just at that 
moment a heavenly influence filled the room; and 
no sooner had I uttered or spoken the words from 
my heart, 'I shall have the blessing now/ than re- 
fining fire went 'through my heart,' illuminating 

my soul I then received the full witness of 

the Spirit that the blood of Jesus had cleansed me 
from all sin. I was emptied of self and sin, and 
filled with God.' ■ 

December 9. Mrs. Phoebe Palmer: "I could no 
longer hesitate: reason as well as grace forbade: 
I rejoice in the assurance that I am wholly sancti- 
fied throughout body, soul, and spirit.' ' 

December 10. Madame Guyon was clear in this 
experience, receiving it by faith ; and for profess- 
ing -and teaching justification and sanctification, 
was imprisoned in French Bastile for four years. 
So deep and blissful was her religious experience, 
she declared: "The very stones of my prison ap- 
pear like rubies in my eyes. J ' 

December 11. Dr. Adam Clark: "I regarded 
nothing, not even life itself, in comparison of hav- 
ing my heart cleansed from all sin : and began to 

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seek it with full purpose of heart. " "Soon 

after this, while earnestly wrestling with the Lord 
in prayer, and endeavoring self -desperately to be- 
lieve, I found a change wrought in my soul, which 
I endeavored, through grace, to maintain amid the 
grievous temptations and accusations of the subtle 
foe." 

December 12. Alfred Cookman : "The evidence 
in my case was as clear and indubitable as the wit- 
ness of sonship received at the time of my adoption 
into the family of heaven. Oh, it was glorious, 
divinely glorious! I could not doubt it. Need I 
say that the experience of sanctification inaugu- 
rated a new epoch in my religious life ? Oh, what 
blessed rest ! What an abiding experience of pur- 
ity through the blood of the Lamb ! ' ' 

December 13. Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers : "I was 
deeply penetrated with His presence, and stood as 
if unable to move, and was insensible to all around 
me. While thus lost in communion with my 
Saviour, He spoke these words to my heart: 'All 
that I have is thine. I am Jesus, in whom dwells 
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I am thine. 
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thee as I love thee. The whole Deity is thine. He 
even now overshadows thee. He now covers thee 
with a cloud of His presence. ' ' 9 

December 14. Dr. Edward Payson: "Were I to 
adopt the figurative language of Bunyan, I might 
date this letter from the land of Beulah, of which 
I have been for some weeks a happy resident. The 
Sun of Righteousness has been gradually drawing 
nearer and nearer, appearing larger and brighter 
as He approached, and now He fills the whole 
hemisphere, pouring forth a flood of glory, in which 
I seem to float like an insect in the beams of the 
sun." 

December 15. Bishop Asbury: "I live in pa- 
tience, in purity, and in the perfect love of God." 
....." God is my portion ; he fills me with pure 
spiritual life. My heart is melted in holy love, and 
altogether devoted to my Lord." 

December 16. J. S. Inskip : "I call heaven and 
earth to witness that I now declare I will be hence- 
forth wholly and forever the Lord's. Seeing that 
I had thus given myself in an ' everlasting coven- 
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out and separated myself unto God, my faith, gath- 
ered strength, and ' looked unto Jesus, ' I exclaimed 
with rapture perfectly unutterable, 'I am, Lord, 
wholly and forever Thine. ' The bliss — the peace — 
the triumph of that hour will never be forgotten/ ' 

December 17. Dr. George Peck: "An indescrib- 
able change passed through all the avenues of my 
spirit. God seemed to be there In the glory of His 
grace. I melted like wax in the presence of the 
Lord. I sank into nothing. Christ was all ele- 
vated upon the throne of Holiness. 



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December 18. Lady Maxwell: "I rest in Him: 
I dwell in Him. Sinking into Him, I lose myself, 
and prove a life of fellowship with Deity so 
divinely sweet I would not relinquish it for a thou- 
sand worlds. It is indeed a narrow path ; but love 
levels every mountain, makes all easy. '0, love 
divine, how sweet thou art!' " 

December 19. A revival will stop whenever the 
church believes it is going to cease. The church 
are the instruments with which God carries on this 
work, and they are to work in it voluntarily and 
with their hearts. Nothing is more fatal to a re- 

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vival than for its friends to predict that it is going 
to stop. No matter what the enemies of the work 
may say about it, predicting that it will run out 
and come to nothing, and the like, they cannot stop 
it in this way. But the friends must labor and 
pray in faith to carry it on. "Whenever the friends 
of a revival begin to prophesy that the revival is 
going to stop, it will infallibly cease. 

December 20. A revival will cease when Chris- 
tians consent that it should cease. Sometimes 
Christians see that the revival is in danger of 
ceasing, and that if something effectual is not done, 
it will come to a stand. If this fact distress them, 
and drive them to prayer, and to fresh efforts, the 
work will not cease. 

December 21. A revival will cease whenever 
Christians become mechanical in their efforts to 
promote them. When their faith is strong, and 
their hearts are warm and mellow and their prayers 
full of holy motion, the work goes on. But when 
their prayers grow cold, and their labors become 
mechanical, the revival will cease. 

December 22. The revival will cease, whenever 

Christians get the idea that the work will go on 

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without their aid. The church are co-workers with 
God in promoting a revival, and the work can be 
carried on just as far as the church will carry it 
on, and no farther. God has been for more than 
nineteen hundred years trying to get the church 
into the work. He has been calling and urging, 
commanding and entreating, pressing and encour- 
aging, to get them to take hold. He has stood all 
this while ready to make bare His arms to carry on 
the work with them. But the church have been 
unwilling to do their part. 

December 23. The work will cease when the 
church prefer to attend to their own concerns 
rather than God's business. I do not admit that 
men have any business which is properly their own, 
but they think so, and in fact prefer what they 
consider as their own, rather than to work for God. 
They begin to think they cannot afford sufficient 
time from their worldly employments to carry on a 
revival. 

December 24. When Christians get proud of 
their great revival, it will cease. I mean those 
Christians who have before been instrumental in 
promoting it. When they begin to think what a 

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great revival they have had, and how they have 
labored and prayed, and how zealous they have 
been, and how much good they have done, then the 
work will be likely to decline. 

December 25. A revival will cease when Chris- 
tians begin to proselyte. When various denomina- 
tions begin to make efforts to get the converts to 
join their church, you soon see the last of the re- 
vival. Perhaps a revival will go on for a time, and 
all sectarian difficulties are banished, till somebody 
circulates a book or tract, privately, to gain 
proselytes. Perhaps some over-zealous deacon, or 
some mischief -making woman, or some proselyting 
minister, can't keep still any longer, and begins 
to work the work of the devil, by attempting to 
gain proselytes, and so stir up bitterness, and rais- 
ing a selfish strife, grieves away the spirit and 
drives Christians all into parties. 

December 26. A revival will cease when Chris- 
tians refuse to render to the Lord according to the 
benefits received. God has opened the windows 
of heaven to a church and poured them out a bless- 
ing, and then He reasonably expects them to bring 
in the tithes into his store house, but they will not. 

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December 27. It will also cause a revival to 
cease when, the church in any way, grieves the Holy 
Spirit. "When they do not feel their dependence 
on the Spirit. Whenever Christians get strong in 
their own strength, God curses their blessings. 

December 28. The Spirit may be grieved by a 
spirit of boasting of the revival. Sometimes, as 
soon as a revival commences, you will see it blazed 
out in the newspapers. And most commonly this 
will kill the revival. There was a case in a neigh- 
boring state, where a revival commenced, and in- 
stantly there came out a letter from the pastor, 
telling that he had a revival. I saw the letter, and 
said to myself, "That is the last we shall hear of 
the revival." And so it was. In a few days the 
work totally ceased. 

December 29. The Spirit is grieved by saying 
or publishing things that are calculated to under- 
value the work of God. When a blessed work of 
God is spoken lightly of, not rendering to God the 
glory due to His name, the Spirit is grieved. If 
anything is said about a revival, give only the 
plain and naked facts just as they are, and let them 
pass for what they are worth. 

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December 30. A revival may be expected to 
cease, when Christians lose the spirit of brotherly 
love. Jesus Christ will not continue with people 
in a revival any longer than they continue in the 
exercise of brotherly love. 

December 31. A revival cannot continue when 
Christians will not practice self-denial. When the 
church has enjoyed a revival and begins to grow 
fat upon it, and run into self-indulgence, the re- 
vival will soon cease. Unless they sympathize with 
the Son of God, who gave up all to save sinners; 
unless they are willing to give up their luxuries, 
and their ease, and lay themselves out in the work, 
they need not expect the Spirit of God will be 
poured out upon them. This is undoubtedly one of 
the principal causes of personal decline. Let 
Christians in a revival BEWARE, when they first 
find an inclination creeping upon them, to shrink 
from self-denial, and to give in to one self-in- 
dulgence after another. It is the device of Satan, 
to bait them off from the work of God, and make 
them dull and gross, and lazy, and fearful, and 
useless, and sensual, and drive away the Spirit 
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Reader, thou oughtest to so order thyself in all 
thy thoughts and actions, as if to-day thou were to 
die. Think of nothing but the salvation of thy 
soul; care for nothing but the things of God. 
Keep thyself as a stranger and pilgrim upon 
earth who hath nothing to do with the affairs of this 
world. 

BEGIN WITH GOD. 

Begin the day with God! 

He is the sun and day; 
He is the radiance of the dawn, 

To Him address thy lay. 

Sing a new song at morn ! 

Join the glad woods and hills ; 
Join the fresh winds and seas and plains, 

Join the bright flowers and rills. 

Sing thy first song to God ! 

Not to thy fellow-man ; 
Not to the creatures of His hand, 

But to the glorious One. 

Awake, cold lips, and sing ! 

Arise, dull knees, and pray ; 
Lift up, man, thy heart and eyes, 

Brush slothfulness away. 

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Look up bgyond the clouds ! 

Thither thy pathway lies ; 
Mount up, away, and linger not, 

Thy goal is yonder skies. 

HAVE FAITH IN TRUTH. 

Have faith in truth, 

And in the True One trust ; 
Though bright with fancy's brightest hues, 

Abhor the lie thou must. 

Make sure of truth, 

And truth will make thee sure ; 
It will not shift, nor fade, nor die, 

But like the heavens endure. 

God's thoughts, not man's, 

Be these thy heritage ; 
They, like Himself are ever young, 

Untouched by time or age. 

God's words, not man's, 

Be these thy gems and gold ; 
Be these thy never-setting stars, 

Still radiant as of old. 

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With God alone, 

Is truth and joy and light. 
Walk thou with Him in peace and love ; 

Hold f ast the good and right. 

Hold fast the true, 

For truth can never change; 
It grows not old, 'tis ever one, 

However vast it range. 

THE FUTURE HOME OF THE FAITHFUL 

Beyond Life's toils and cares, 
Its hopes and joys, its weariness and sorrow; 
Its sleepless nights, its days of smiles and tears, 
Will he a long, sweet life unmarked by years, 

One bright, unending morrow. 

Beyond time's troubled stream, 
Beyond the chilling waves of death's dark river; 
Beyond life's lowering clouds and fitful gleams, 
Its dark realities and brighter dreams, 

A beautiful forever. 

No aching hearts are there, 

No tear-dimmed eyes, no form by sickness wasted, 

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No cheek grown pale through penury or care, 
No spirit crushed beneath the woes they bear, 
No sighs for bliss untasted. 

No sad farewell is heard, 
No lonely wail for loving ones departed, 
No dark remorse is there o'er memories stirred, 
No smile or scorn, no harsh or cruel word 

To grieve the broken-hearted 

No long dark night is there, 
Nor light from sun or silvery moon is given, 
But Christ, the Lamb of God, all bright and fair, 
Illumes the city with effulgence rare, 

The glorious light of heaven. 

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